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-Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street NW « 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530.
(202), 724-0088.- Fax: (202) 724-0457

November 27, 1996

The Honorable John M. Deutch -
Director of Central Intelligence
The Central: Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505

Re: The Central hitelligence Agency’s Compliance with the JFK Assassination

Dear Mr. Deutch:

Since 1994, the Assassination Records Review Board (“Review Board”) has been
working with a number of Federal agencies, including the Central intelligence Agency,
to locate and publicly release records related to the assassination of President Kennedy.
These actions have been taken pursuant to The President John F. Kennedy “=

. Assassination Records Collection“Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V 1994) (JEK

. Act”). We have been working with Mr. John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group

and Mr. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer, Historical Review Group of CIA and
have appreciated the cooperation we have received.

The purpose of this letter is to request your agency’s cooperation in assisting the
Review Board in discharging its responsibility of assuring Congress and the American _
people that the goals of the JFK Act have been accomplished to the greatest reasonable
extent. We want to assure the American people that the United States Government has
identified, located, and released all records relating to the assassination of President
Kennedy. Indeed, one of the paramount purposes of the JFK Act is to certify to the
public that the United States Government is not withholding relevant materials related
to the assassination. See, e.g., Assassination Materials Disclosure Act, H. R. Rep. No. 102-
625, Part 1, 102d Cong. 2d Sess. (1992) (“The Federal Government's failure to release
official materials has contributed to numerous conspiracy theories and fueled charges of
government complicity in the assassination . . . a salutary purpose is served in opening
these files [relating to the JFK assassination ] to allay the suspicion of government
cover-up. “).

Boaro Memeers: John R. Tunheim, Chair - Heary F. Graff - Kermit L. Hall - William L. Joyce * Anna K. Nelson .
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The Review Board has recently considered how it, along with the relevant federal
‘agencies, can best demonstrate to the American public that a thorough, good faith, and
diligent effort has been made to locate and release all remaining assassination-related
records within the control of the United States Government (and that the Government is
not hiding any such materials from public disclosure). Pursuant to the Congressional.
mandate under the JFK Act to “create an enforceable, independent, and accountable.
process for the public disclosure of such records,” 44 U.S.C. § 2107(2)(a)(3), the Review
Board seeks to have the relevant federal agencies provide a complete and specific ~
accounting of. their efforts to locate and release assassination-related records, including
a full explanation for any destruction of such records. “mee
Accordingly, the Review Board requests that each relevant agency adhere to the formal
compliance program (hereinafter “JFK Act Compliance Program”) outlined below and
‘devised by the Review Board pursuant to its powers under Section 7(j)(1)(A), (B), (C),
(D), and (F) of the JFK Act. We hereby request that you undertake the following
measures by the dates provided (these dates were set in view of the fact that the
Review Board's operations currently are scheduled to expire on September 30, 1997):

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inten to comply withthe Ee Act We request that aa December 9, 1996, |
your agency designate an Agency Compliance Official who ultimately will

be responsible for ensuring that the agency has complied with its
obligations under the JFK Act, including the identification, location, and
organization of assassination records and the transmission of those
records to the National Archives and Records Administration (“National
Archives”). Although the Review Board assumes that Mr. John Pereira or
Mr. Barry Harrelson will serve in this position, we nevertheless await
your formal confirmation. If necessary, your agency may designate
additional persons with knowledge of the measures that have been
undertaken to locate assassination records.

We also request that by December 9, 1996, the agency convey its
agreement to adhere to the compliance procedures outlined in this letter.
To the extent that any compliance procedure described below appears to
be unreasonable or to present difficulties that we may not have
‘anticipated, please explain why and make alternate suggestions to us.

2. Initial Statement of Compliance. “We request that the Agency Compliance
Official prepare, by January 6, 1997, an initial written statement of the

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agency’s compliance with the JFK Act (“Statement of Compliance”),
setting forth the steps that the agency has taken to locate and process
assassination records. The Review Board recognizes that many of the
relevant federal agencies, including the Central Intelligence Agency, have
previously written letters to the Review Board apprising. it of their’.
progress at various stages of identifying and processing assassination.
records under the JFK Act. The Statement of Compliance, while it may
include information previously reported to the Board, is to be the agency’s
comprehensive and final report to the American public of what it has
done to locate records relating to the assassination. This Statement of
Compliance shall include, to the fullest reasonable extent, the'following
information: .

a. A complete description of all steps that your agency took to
identify and locate assassination records including, but not limited
to, an identification of the major record collections and files that
were consulted in the agency’s search, any departmental file
indices consulted, the names and titles of the persons who were
responsible for conducting the searches, the physical locations of
the records that were searched, the off-site storage facilities (e.g.,
Federal Records Centers) searched, the specific steps that were
taken to locate and retrieve materials in archives, and any other
criteria used by the agency to locate assassination records,

b. A description of the steps that the agency took in direct response to |

specific requests of the Review Board to locate certain additional
records or information relating to the assassination. In particular,
we ask that the CIA describe what specific steps it has taken to
address the following requests: CIA-9, Publications and Analytical
Materials (See David G. Marwell letter ‘dated March 6, 1996 to Mr.
John Pereira); CIA-11, Silvia Duran’s Original Statement (See David
G. Marwell letter dated May 3, 1996 to Mr. John Pereira); CLA-12,
JMWAVE Materials (See David G. Marwell letter dated May 22,
1996 to Mr. John Pereira); for HTLINGUAL records (See T. Jeremy
Gunn Memorandum dated October 1, 1996 to Mr. Barry Harrelson);
and for Monthly Operational Reports on Cuban Exile Groups (See
Manuel E. Legaspi Memorandum dated October 17, 1996 to Mr.
Barry Harrelson).

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c. To the extent that any assassination-related records have been
destroyed by the agency or any agency official, a full and specific
explanation of the circumstances surrounding the destruction of
such records.

d. The status of remaining work that you can now identify that needs
to be completed by your agency in order to comply fully with the
JFK Act, including an identification of the categories of records
that must be processed and transmitted to the National Archives, a
description of any additional searches for files that mist be done,
and the projected date(s) for completion of these tasks. 3

Shortly after the submission of the agency’ s written Statement of
Compliance, we ask that the Agency Compliance Official (as well.as any
persons who helped prepare the agency’s initial Statement of
Compliance) be made available to the Review Board for an interview
regarding the location of agency assassination records. The interview will
the agency’s search, including any follow-up tasks to be completed by the
agency. The Review Board anticipates that these interviews will be
conducted in January 1997.

issi inal A ion of jance | By July 1, 1997,
Federal agencies are re expected t to complete the process of identification,
location, and declassification of its assassination records at which time.
they should submit to the Review Board a final declaration certifying,
under oath, their compliance with the provisions of the JFK Act (the “Final
Declaration of Compliance”). Because of the volume of CIA records, such
a “final” statement may not be practicable at that time. However, we do
expect that CIA will provide a complete status appraisal by July 1, 1997.
This final declaration shall set forth all of the information initially set forth -
in the initial Statement of Compliance and shall also supplement the initial
Statement of Compliance by. detailing any further steps-that were
conducted by the agency in identifying and locating assassination records.
The agencies’ Final Declarations of Compliance will be included in our
final report to Congress.


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5. Compliance Depositions. Starting on or about August 1, 1997, the Review
Board, pursuant to its statutory authority, may conduct depositions,
under oath, of the Agency Compliance Official along with any other
agency officials with responsibility for complying with the JFK Act. The
decision to take a compliance deposition of an agency will be made ona
case by case basis, taking into account the importance of the agency to the
work of the JFK Act and the sufficiency of the agency’s efforts to account ~
fully for its compliance with the JFK Act. In the event that the Review
Board decides to commence a compliance deposition of an agency, the
responsible agency designee(s) will be expected to testify under oath with
respect to any and all issues relating to the agency’s record sea arch,
including the scope of the search, the identity of filés searched, the
destruction of any relevant records, and any other matters set forth in the .
Final Declaration of Compliance. Any person obligated to appear for a
deposition under oath shall be fully entitled to obtain legal representation.

We look forward to receiving your initial response, by December 9, that designates your
Agency Compliance Official and includes your statement regarding your position with
respect to the provisions outlined in this letter. To the extent that you have any
questions or suggestions regarding the Compliance Program, please do not hesitate to
contact our General Counsel, T. Jéremy Gunn, at (202) 724-0088.

Thank you for your cooperation with our work.
Sincerely, _
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David

G. Marwell . a

Executive Director

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The Honorable Nora Slatkin, Executive Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Michael O'Neil, General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency

John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group, Central Intelligence Agency

Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer, Historical Review Group, Central
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9 December 1996

David G. Marwell

Executive Director

Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street N.W., 2nd Floor
Washington D.C. 20530

Dear Mr. Marwell:

The Director of Central Intelligence has forwarded to
me your 27 November 1996 letter for response. I commend the
efforts of the Review Board and its staff in reviewing and
releasing hundreds of thousands of United States Government
documents for greater public understanding about the
assassination of President Kennedy. I also confirm the
Central Intelligence Agency's commitment to continue working
closely with the Review Board in carrying out its statutory
authorities.

With regard to the requests made in your letter, I
understand the Review Board's desire to demonstrate to the
public that it has carried out its duties thoroughly and
diligently. You have requested that CIA appoint an Agency
Compliance Official to be responsible for ensuring CIA's
compliance with its obligations under the JFK Act. The DCI
has full confidence in Mr. John Pereira as Chie£ of the
Historical Review Group (HRG) and has determined that Mr.

. Pereira will continue to act as the CIA official responsible
for ensuring full compliance with the JFK Act and will
remain the Agency's focal point with the Review Board.

You have also requested that CIA provide an Initial
Statement of Compliance. Mr. Pereira and Mr. Barry
Harrelson, the senior review officer for HRG, as well as the
rest of the HRG staff, have always been available to you
without restriction. The Review Board and your staff have
been provided access to any relevant documents or
information you have requested. As you know, the Review
Board was fully informed as to the steps CIA took to
designate Agency records as part of the President Kennedy
collection. HRG has also arranged for multiple briefings by
senior CIA officials from a wide variety of CIA components

_ 80 that the Review Board can better understand the
information it is reviewing. Given the current effective
relationship between HRG and your staff, should you require
additional assurances of this Agency's compliance with the
JFK Act, I suggest that you contact Messrs. Pereira and

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Harrelson directly. As usual, they will provide you with
the specific information you need as quickly as possible to
continue to record CIA's compliance with the JFK Act.

As to your request for a complete description of the
steps CIA has taken to respond to specific requests, I

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understand that there are several outstanding requests. HRG .

has assured me that these requests have been discussed with
your staff and responses will be provided to you as quickly
as possible. Given the number and breadth of the requests
that are being made by the Review Board and the limited
staff resources available to CIA to process such requests, I
ask that the Review Board ‘continue to prioritize all its
requests for information or‘ documents. With the Review
Board's priorities established in this way, the Agency can
immediately work on those requests that are most important
to the Review Board. Of course, as CIA responds to these
requests, HRG will provide any information the Review Board
needs as to how the searches were conducted. I believe that
this method will best meet the needs of the Review Board and
will allocate CIA's limited resources in the moat efficient
manner possible.

Finally, as to your requests to interview CIA officials
responsible for this Agency's compliance with the JFK Act,
Mr. Pereira has always been available to the Review Board
for informal discussions as well as for giving sworn.
testimony including depositions. CIA has never objected to
the Review Board deposing or interviewing informaily any of
its current or former employees and has, in fact,
facilitated such interviews. You will also recall that, on
6 August 1996, Messrs. Pereira and Harrelson gave sworn
testimony at an open hearing of the Review Board.

I trust that this responds to the concerns raised in
your letter. Of course,, if you should have any questions
regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact
G@inda C, Cipriani, an attorney in the Office of General
Counsel, at (703) 874-3124.

With every good wish, I am

Sincerely yours,


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600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530
(202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457

April 16, 1997

Mr. J. Barry Harrelson
Historical Review Group
Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C, 02505

Re: Status of CIA Responses to Assassination Records Review Board’s Compliance

Pro d Lee for Additional Informatio d.

Dear Barry:

I am writing to memorialize the Review Board’s understanding of the status of CIA’s
responses to our formal and informal requests for additional information and records
that have been requested pursuant to the Review Board's authority under Section
7(j)(1)(C)Gi)of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of
1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (Supp. V 1994) (JFK Act).

It is important that everyone at the Agency who is responsible for providing answers to
our requests for additional information and records understand that the answers will
need to be incorporated by reference into the Agency's Final Compliance Statement.
Essentially, CIA will need to attest, under oath, that it has made all reasonable and
diligent searches and that its answers are true and correct to the extent of the best,
reasonably available information. In this regard, is important to note that when the
Review Board requests, for example, a 201 file, it is not asking that you identify relevant
records within the Sequestered Collection. Rather, it is asking to review the original
201 file in its current and most complete version.!

The Review Board has no basis for assuming that.a 201 file as it appears in the
Sequestered Collection today is necessarily complete. It is fully possible that a relevant
document was not identified by CIA or the HSCA in 1978-79 and therefore is not.
included in the Sequestered Collection, or that a relevant document that was initially
placed in the Sequestered Collection in 1978-79 may have been misplaced at some point
during the subsequent twenty years. Therefore, in response to requests for files, it is
not sufficient merely to point to places where responsive records appear in the
Collection. On a case-by-case basis, we are very willing to hear your explanations for
the possible burdensomeness of any particular search or your analysis of why a search

Boand Memeerns: John A. Tunheim, Chair « Hanry F. Graff + Kermit lL. Hall - William L. Joyce « Anna K. Nelson
Executive Dinecton: David G. Marwell:

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As we have written in our formal requests and as we have said to you orally, you
should interpret our requests in the broadest reasonable sense. However, to the extent
that you believe that a request poses an unreasonable burden that we may not have »
anticipated, or to the extent.that you have suggestions to modify or to amend our
requests in such a way as to better reach our goals, you should not hesitate to make
suggestions or seek clarification. However, unless we specifically hear from you to the
contrary, it is our presumption that CIA will respond fully to the requests as posed.

In response to your request, the ARRB staff has now identified six of our outstanding
Tequests as high priority issues. We would appreciate your forwarding to us as much
responsive material as you are reasonably able to assemble during the upcoming two

‘weeks with regard to these six issues. We wish to obtain a reasonably complete

response to these requests within one month. These six issues are identified in the text
by double asterisks (**).?

The remainder of this letter is divided into two parts involving first, the formal requests
for information and records, and second, the informal requests for information and

_tecords. Please let me know if your understanding of any of the following points

differs from ours so that we can resolve any potential discrepancies.’

I. Formal Requests.
CIA-1 Organizational Material.

CIA has collected information responsive to this request for Review Board
action. The ARRB staff has identified records that it believes will enhance the

will not be fruitful.

2A5 identified more fully below, the six issues are: CIA-7 (Histories); CIA-16
(Oswald Pre-assassination files); personnel assigned to a designated post;
QKENCHANT; the electronic take from the Mexico City Station; and files on George

Stanley Brown.

>This memorialization follows-up, i in large part, on your conversations of March
19 and 20, 1997 with Michelle Combs and on the DO and DS&T briefings to the ARRB
staff on April 1, 1997.

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historical understanding of the assassination by providing some backgrourid on
CIA records.

CIA should now review the DO and DS&T organizational material and
re-examine some of the proposed redactions. Several documents have been
cleared by the directorate IRO’s for either release in full or release with minor
redactions.* The ARRB staff will consult with CLA to determine whether these
records should be designated “assassination records” or whether they could be

made available publicly in a manner similar to the material from the 1996 Boston

- trip. HRG would like to discuss this issue before the materials are formally put
before the Review Board.

CIA-2 through CIA-S.

These requests have been satisfied and no further action is needed by CIA.

“These are:

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~Organization of the Office of the Director 1963
~Mission Statements for 1959, 1962, 1965 and 1966

_~some Office of the Director notices

~—OGC and IG Mission Statements for 1964, 1966, 1969, 1975, and 1976
—OLC Mission Statement for 1975 and 1976

—-Organization and Functions of the DI pre-1961
~-Organizational Charts for 1961, 1964, and 1969
—Mission Statements for 1961, 1963, 1964, 1966, and 1970

-~Mission Statements 1957, 1958, 1960, 1963, and 1974

—Organizational Chart 1958, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, and 1966

-~-Office of Security Organizational Charts for 1956, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1966,
1967, 1969, and 1975

—Office of Security Mission Statements for 1958, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1969,
and 1975.

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CIA-6 Cables and Dispatches.

The Review Board first made this request on September 11, 1995. On September
11, 1995, CIA agreed to make these materials available by December, 1995. On
October 1, 1996, CIA agreed to make these materials available by November,
1996.

We are aware that many of the cables requested are already in the JFK files, but
not all are included. Those that we have not been able to locate in the collection
include: Mexico City Station to Headquarters (September 26-30, 1963); |
Headquarters to Mexico City Station (September 26-30, 1963); JMWAVE to
Headquarters (September 26-November 21, 1963); Headquarters to JMWAVE
(September 26-November 21, 1963); and all traffic between the Mexico City —
Station and JMWAVE for the periods September 26-October 20, 1963 and
November 22-December 30, 1963.

™CIA-7 Histories.

The Review Board first requested access to several internal CIA histories and to
indices of histories on November 8, 1995. On August 8, 1996, after reviewing a
list of histories that you provided, the ARRB staff designated approximately
sixty histories for which further review was sought. To date, the ARRB staff has
reviewed the seven histories that CLA has made available and has made
suggestions with respect to further processing of those seven histories. CIA
should make the remaining sixty- plus histories available.

CIA-8 Intelligence Community Staff records.
The Review Board first requested information on the Intelligence Community
Staff on March 1, 1996. On October 1, 1996, CIA agreed to report on the status of
this request within two weeks. The Review Board has not yet received any
' substantive response to this request.

CIA-9 Intelligence Community publications on Cuba or USSR (November 20-30, 1963). ~

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, CIA-10 Interagency Source Register.

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review 5 Michelle Combs reviewed the materials and identified some that should
probably become available to the public. The DI has been tasked to locate: the
additional publications that have been requested. _

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CIA has provided a full description of the ISR, which should now be submitted
as a formal response to the Review Board’s request. Once the formal statement is
provided, this request will be complete. (Under separate cover, the'Review .
Board is sending to you an additional request for information and records, CIA-
17, which provides a list of names that we request you check against the
Interagency Source Register.)

CIA-11 Sylvia Duran. materials.

CIA reports that it has exhausted its reasonable leads for pursuing additional
information. CIA has agreed to provide a formal letter for the record detailing

what searches were done and confirming that the responsive document currently -

in the JFK collection is.a true copy of the original letter. Once this formal
statement is provided, this request will be complete. —

CIA-12 JMWAVE and David Sanchez Morales.

On May 22, 1996, the Review Board requested access to “all 201 files, personnel
files, Office of Security files, P-files, or any other files” relating to five persons
allegedly connected to JMWAVE. It is our understanding that, in response to

' this request, several months ago CIA located and made available for our review

many records responsive to this request. However, it is also our understanding

‘They include:

Intelligence Report (11/22/63; 11/23/63; 11/24/63; 11/26/63; 11/27/63;
12/11/63; 12/13/63; 12/18/63; and 12/20/63). *

Intelligence Memorandum (11/23/63; 11/24/63; 11/25/63; 11/25/63; 4/20/64;

and 10/16/64).

President's Intelligence Checklist (11/23/63; 11/24/63; 11/ 25/63; 11/26/63;
11/27/63; 11/28/63; and 11/30/63).

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that all of the records provided were located in the Sequestered Collection.
As stated in the second paragraph at the beginning of this letter, we seek to

review the original files that we have requested. The DO Provided no response
and no time frame for a response.

CIA-13 Mexico City Backchannel Communications.

‘This request, dated November 1, 1996, was raised at the DO follow-up briefing
~ on April 1,1997. The DO provided no response and no time frame for a
response.

CIA-14 Mexico City Station Annual Reports.

_ This request, dated December 23, 1996, was raised at the DO follow-up briefing
on April.1, 1997. The DO provided no response and no time frame fora ~
response.

CIA-15 Win Scott files identified in Russ Holmes Files.
CIA has completed its response and no further action is needed.
**CIA-16 Oswald Pre-Assassination Files.
The HRG reportedly received a lengthy answer from the Office of Security on the
. LHO files and a formal response to the Review Board’s request is in process.
Oswald’s Office of Security file has been located and will be delivered to HRG ~

for review in April. Access to other files will require a special request from HRG
to the Office of Security and should be requested by HRG for ARRB staff review.

Il. Informal Requests,

All of the following informal requests have previously been made to CIA. For future .
reference, they will be referred to by the “Informal Request” (IR) number provided
below.

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“*CIA-IR-01 Personnel assigned to post from 1959-64 (see RIF 104-10065-10199).

This request, originally made in November 1996, was raised at the DO follow-up
briefing on April 1, 1997. It is our understanding that the DO believes that it is
not able to answer this request. The ARRB staff does not find DO’s response to
be credible. We believe that with all of the resources at the Agency’s disposal --
including ready contact with individuals who should be able to answer this
question from memory -- this question can be answered.*° The ARRB staff has
provided suggestions as to how this information could be obtained, including
suggesting the types of files and cables that could be searched.

CIA-IR-02 Location of cable identified in JFK 1993.07.20.10.18:29:650630.

The cable was delivered to the Review Board on March 20, 1997. No further
action by CIA is needed.

CIA-IR-03 Full computer search for list of documents in HTLINGUAL file.

CIA should undertake a computer run for all HTLINGUAL documents. All
computer searches for these documents should be documented in a formal letter
for the record.

CIA-IR-04 Disposition of Angleton’s files.

The Review Board seeks to ensure that it has taken all reasonable steps to -
account for any files that James Jesus Angleton possessed or controlled that
related to the assassination and to Lee Harvey Oswald. Because of the perceived
controversy surrounding the disposition of Angleton’s files, the Review Board -
believes it prudent to obtain a clear understanding of the types of files that he
maintained and their ultimate disposition. (The Review Board does not seek to
explore any subjects in Angleton’s files beyond those that may have pertained to
the assassination.) To date, CIA has made available certain documents provided
by the CIC and the case files for Mangold v. CIA. The Review Board requests any
additional information in the possession of CLA that would explain the
disposition of Angleton’s files.

°The ARRB staff has spoken with a retired CIA official who claims to be able to
answer this question from memory, but who refused to do so.

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CIA-IR-05 Possible foreign source for records on Oswald.

CIA was informally requested, more than two years ago, to use its contacts to
pursue certain records related to Oswald that were orally described to CIA. The
Review Board believed that, for reasons of security classification of information,
it would be appropriate for CIA to make the initial inquiries rather than the
Review Board. Under separate cover, we are providing documentation of the
action the Review Board has taken to further this request.

“*CIA-IR-06. QKRENCHANT.

The Review Board seeks information regarding the purpose of OQRENCHANT
and its connection with Clay Shaw, Howard Hunt, and Monroe Sullivan.

The Review Board was initially provided some information in regard to this
request that now appears to be incorrect. CIA is now seeking additional:
information to correct or to clarify its previous answers. The Review Board seeks

- an immediate, full, and accurate response to this request.

CIA-IR-07 Claude Barnes Capehart.

The ARRB staff has reviewed all records that CIA has been able to locate to date.
During the course of this review, additional questions were raised that you.
agreed to pursue. You also agreed to conduct additional searches to determine
whether there may be additional retrievable records on Mr. Capehart.

CIA-IR-08 Unredacted copy of the “Family Jewels” memoranda.

HRG will locate this item.

CIA-IR-09 George Bush computer search. |

The Review Board provided CIA with a copy of an FBI document, dated

November 29, 1963, prepared under the name of John Edgar Hoover, which
states: “The substance of the foregoing information [on the assassination of
President Kennedy] was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central

Intelligence Agency ....” We have been informed that the DO has no record of a. |

“George Bush” being. in n the employ of CIA in 1963 with the exception of Mr.
George William Bush who has already given a swom affidavit that he is not the

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“George Bush” in question. CIA is now checking whether the search query
included George Herbert Walker Bush prior to 1970. CIA should determine
whether George Herbert Walker Bush is the person to whom the memorandum
refers and should provide a definitive statement regarding the scope of its search
and the basis of its conclusion.

CIA-IR-10 IG Reports.

CIA will determine whether the IG’s office maintains an index or inventory of its
reports and determine whether the IG’s office prepared a report on the handling
- of Oswald. .

. CIA-IR-11 Warren Commission critics.

Weare asking that CIA determine whether it possesses any files or records on
Warren Commission. critics Edward J. Epstein, Josiah Thompson, Mark Lane,

- Harold Weisberg, or Sylvia Meagher. The Review. Board is not requesting:
information per se regarding any FOIA requests by these individuals or any
Public Affairs news clippings.”

CIA-IR-12 Contacts with journalists or publishing houses.

The Review Board seeks to determine to what extent, if any, CIA might have
attempted to influence any journalists or publishers regarding public discussion
of the assassination. This request, originally discussed in March 1997, was raised
at the DO follow-up briefing on April 1 1, 1997. The DO had no response and no
time frame for a response.

CIA-IR-13 Office or person dealing with organized crime and Cuba.

The Review Board requested that CIA make a particular personnel file available.
The file was made available by CIA for review. The Review Board will discuss
with you whether any further steps need to be taken.

"To the extent that CLA possesses FOIA files or records on any of these
individuals, and to the extent that those records contain information that was not filed
‘with the courts, such records are being requested for review by the Review Board.

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CIA-IR-14 Breckinridge files.
CIA (OGC) will determine the disposition of the files of Scott D. Breckinridge.
**CIA-IR-15 Electronic “take” from Mexico City Station.

The Review Board has for some time been attempting to determine whether it
has had access to all of CIA’s surveillance “take” from the Cuban and Soviet
facilities in Mexico City at the time of the Oswald visit and in the immediate
wake of the assassination. On numerous occasions, the Review Board has asked
whether there was any surveillance take in addition to what is currently in the
collection.

On March 18, 1997, the Review Board provided additional leads to CIA to assist
it in answering these questions. The DO has agreed to check Headquarters
records for the file referenced in HMMW 12454, to search for the crypts cited in
this document,.and to search for HMMA 20307 and other cables or dispatches ©
cited in this document. The DS&T will query its offices for possible records on
"Mexico City and Cuba and for the present location of Staff D records. Regardless

of the outcome of these particular searches, the Review Board continues to seek a_

full accounting for all surveillance conducted during the relevant time periods.
CIA-IR-16 U-2 files. | .
DS&T will provide a folder title print out of U-2 materials for Review Board
‘examination, check for records filed under Richard Bissell’s name, and search for
OSP files. DS&T has also contacted Lockheed for assistance.
CIA-IR-17 DS&T Records on Castro assassination plots.

HRG will furnish the 1967 IG Report to provide possible search query
suggestions for DS&T follow-up.

CIAAR-18 DO Office.

The Review Board has requested orally information about a particular DO office.
We understand that you are collecting the relevant information.

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CIA-IR-19 Computer searches

The Review Board has requested that full computer searches be conducted on all
of the following people and organizations. The results of the searches should be
documented. |

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| ARRB awaits documentation. OP file starts in'1988. HIRG is
checking on a 201. No OMS file.

ARRB awaits documentation. HRG is checking for a DCD
file.

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5. John McVickar ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file. No OMS file. DO
is checking. ;

& Andy Anderson

7. Byron B. Morton, Jr. ARRB awaits.documentation. No OP file.. No OMS file.
8. Marie Cheatham - .| ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file. No OMS file.

9. Paul Garbler ARRB awaits documentation. OP file. OMS file. HRG has.
10. Verna Deane Brown, _| ARRB awaits documentation. No OP file

requested personnel file.

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15. INCA (Information | ARRB awaits documentation. HRG will check for files
Council of the Americas) F

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Please let me know if you have any supplements or corrections. We would very much
like to ensure that these mattezs are handled expeditiously. As always, we appreciate
your cooperation and assistance.

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JFK Records Review Project

(U) The following is intended as a guide for those
people whose work requires them to review Agency documents ©
and materials that may be subject to the President John F.
Kennedy Assassination Records ‘Collection Act of 1992,

Some of the records within the. . Agency's JFK collection are
assassination specific, others: are ancillary. They deal
with individuals and events not directly linked with Oswald”
or the assassination; but they are thought to have had a
relationship to the assassination, or investigation into_ the
assassination. i

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I. The Agency! 8 JFK Collection.

(U) The Agency's JFK records collection is made up
primarily of records pulled together for the Warren
Commission and House Select Committee on Assassinations -.
(HSCA). There were eighty-one (81) Records Center-sized
boxes in the original collection. Of these, the first -
seventeen (17) made up the Oswald 201 file. The next sixty-
four (64) are referred to as the “JFK files” or sequestered
collection and break down as follows: thirty-four (34) boxes
of DO materials; nine (9) boxes of Office of Security files;
fifteen (15) boxes of OLC materials; two (2) boxes each of
OGC and IG materials; and -.one (1) box of DDS&T documents.
HSCA originated material, including notes by HSCA staff
members, are found throughout the collection. Box 64
contains seventy two (72) reels of microfilm.

(0) | The microfilm contains copies of complete files to
which the HSCA had access during its investigation. In
addition to the Oswald 201 file (12 reels), the microfilm.
includes: 201 files on Cubans, Americans, and Soviets linked
to Oswald, the JFK assassination or the various —
investigations (approximately 26 reels)and the Cuban
Revolutionary Council and other exile group activities
(approximately 13 reels); the personnel files of CIA staff
employees (approximately 5 reels); and operational files on
organizations, projects, and other subjects of interest to
the HSCA investigation (approximately 16 reels) .

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(U) We continue to identify other collections of documents
that properly belong within the JFK collection. These
include: The Oswald Security File; Agency working files
generated by JFK assassination investigations and requests;
and CIA documents found by other agencies and Presidential~’
Libraries and referred to CIA for review under the JFK Act.

Il. The Time Frame of JFK Assassination Records.

(U) In general, the time frame of JFK records commences
when Oswald arrived at the US air base (the U-2) at Atsugi,
Japan, in December 1957 and continues through the end of the
Garrison _investigation in 1968. Note, however, for

nforma to the story of the JFK
assassination or its investigations, ther

limitation, Any document or request that deals with the
assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, or the various conspiracy
theories should be referred to the HRG/JFK review ‘Project.

III. Key Topics, Etc.

(U) Certain individuals, organizations, places,
projects, and subjects are central to the Oswald/JFK story

and the ensuing investigations, which causes a number of
documents with no mention of Oswald or the assassination to
fall within the purview of the JFK Act. Clearly, it is not .
possible to list every category of document which may have
been reviewed and released under the. JFK Assassination
Records Act. The following categories contain examples of
information that are considered to be within the JFK
review.

(U) A. JFK Assassination Investigations:

-- Warren Commission, 1963-64

-- James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68

~~ Rockefeller Commission,* 1975;

-- Church Committee (Senate) ,* 1975-76

-- House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) ,

1976-79

* JFK Assassination, anti-Castro | plots and CIA anti-

Cuban operations only.

B. Key subjects

(S)  -- Moscow Station, Mexico City Station, JMWAVE Station,
and CIA stations in those cities through which
Oswald passed on his way to and from the Soviet
Union, as they related to Oswald's activities or to
possible conspiracies.

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(ATUO) *. CIA anti- Cuban operations 1960-64 (Mongoose, etc.)
(see comment qn
Meagher 's “index” below); most US anti-Castro
activities in 1963 are considered relevant.

(U) -- Cuban exile anti- -Castro activities, leaders and ee
organizations, 1960-64, if they involve JFK figures.

-- Castro assassination activities (plans and
attempts); no limit on time frame.

-- Mafia, if related to Castro, JFK, or New Orleans.
during Oswald time frames (see attached chronology) .

(AIUO)C. Ke ey figure es
(the following individuals are considered JFK .
assassination-related, unless the context is clearly —
unrelated or outside the appropriate time period)
~- AMMUG, Cuban defector; — a oy
-- Maurice Bishop, alleged to exist (any xéference) ; -
-- = gis Duran, employee in Cuban Embassy, Mexico
Cit
-- Richard Gibson and the Free Cuba Committee; '—
-- Howard Hunt, CIA employee;
-- Priscilla MacMillan Johnson, journalist;
~- Valeriy Kostikov, KGB officer in Mexico city;
-- Mr. & Mra. George de Mohrenschildt (all documents)
-- Yuri Nosenko and the dispute over his bona fides;
~~ Michael and Ruth Paine, Dallas friends of Oswalds;
-- David Phillips, CIA employee;
-- Richard Snyder, State Department Officer.
-- Winston Scott, COS Mexico City

For a more comprehensive list of subjects and individuals
related to the JFK assassination, reviewers should consult

Sylvia Meagher's Master Index to the JFK Assassination
Investigations, The Scarecrow Press, 1980. —

(U) Action Officer: Barry Harrelson (31825)

Attachment: Oswald Chronology

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{U) Attachment:

Oswald Chronology, ‘1956-1963

--Joins Marines 10/26/56

--Arrives Atsugi (U2 Base) Japan 09/12/57

~-Returns to US i 11/62/58 .

--Hardship discharge , 09/21/59 te

--Departs New Orleans for Moscow 09/20/59. f
via LeHavre, London, Helsinki ”

--Arrives Moscow 10/16/59

~-Resides in Minsk 01/07/60 -— 65/22/62

--Departs Moscow via train 06/62/E2 —

--Departs Rotterdam via ship 06/64/62

~-Arrives New York 06/13/62

--Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas 06/14/62 - 04/63

~-New Orleans 04/63  -- 09/63

~-Mexico City 09/25/63. - 10/03/63

- 11/24/63

--Dallas 10/3/63

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October 16, 1997

HAND-DELIVERED

J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Review Officer

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 02505

Re: Submission of CIA’s Initial Statement of Compliance Under the JFK
Assassination Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107

Dear Barry:

In connection with the work of the CIA to locate and release records relating to {—
President Kennedy’s assassination pursuant to the President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (“JFK Act”), ree submit to the Review

_ Board the CIA‘s initial formal report regarding its work.

As you know, the procedures for documenting the CIA’s compliance with the JFK Act
were set forth in the Review Board’s November 27, 1996 letter to the CIA Director.
These procedures entailed the submission of an intial report by the CIA, which we
referred to as an Initial Statement of Compliance. This past Spring, we informally
agreed to extend the time for submission of the Initial Compliance Statement pending
ongoing work of the CIA under the JFK Act.

To facilitate the completion of the CIA’s work by September 1998, including the
submission to Congress of a final report detailing the work accomplished by the CIA Lo
and other Federal agencies under the JFK Act, please submit the CLA’s Initial |

Compliance Statement to the Review Board no later than November 6, 1997

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Mr. J. Barry Harrelson
October 16, 1997
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Thank you for your cooperation.

Sincerely,

T. Jeremy Gunn
Executive Director
and General Counsel

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October 17,1997 PeveAgE OF CIA INFORMATION | \
Mr. John Perea INTHIS

Director _

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC 20505

Re: Completion of Review of Assassination Records = 7 3

Dear John:

The Assassination Records Review Board (“Review Board”) has less than one year to
complete its statutory responsibility of ensuring that all Federal records related to the
assassination of President Kennedy are made publicly available at the National
Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”). Because of the importance to the
Review Board of completing the review and release of Central Intelligence Agency
records, I am taking this opportunity to raise with you some of our concerns and to
describe our goals.

Let me first reiterate our deep appreciation for the cooperation that we have received
thus far from the Agency. We are very mindful of the enormous amount of work that
has been accomplished thus far. We very much hope to be able to report, at the
completion of our work, that the Agency has fully complied with the letter and spirit of
the JFK Act and that the Review Board is confident that all CIA assassination records
have been fully processed and transferred to the National Archives. Unfortunately, it is
clear at this point that the pace of review of CIA records will need to increase
significantly during this final year so that the Review Board and the CIA will be able to
complete our responsibilities and that the Review Board can issue the type of report
that we all ideally envision.

,
It is our goal to have all CIA assassination records reviewed and transferred to NARA
by September 1, 1998. By “all” assassination records, I include the unredacted originals
as well as copies containing Board-approved postponements. (I am excluding,
therefore, duplicates of those records that have been transferred to NARA.) The
Review Board is prepared to take all necessary steps within its statutory authority to
ensure that this work is accomplished.

Boaro Memaers: John R. Tunheim, Chair « Henry F. Graff - Kermit L. Halt - William L. Joyce + Anna K. Nelson
Executive Director: David G. Marwell

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October 17, 1997

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The Review Board has promised Congress that this work will be completed by
September 1998. The Review Board also is obligated to keep Congress informed, on a
monthly basis, of the steps it has taken to ensure completion of this goal. We now need
to keep Congress informed of any difficulties that we are facing in the course of
completing this work.

As you know, the JFK Act in many ways imposed difficult obligations. For example, it
required the CIA (and other agencies) to complete its review and transfer.of records to
NARA within 300 days of the time the statute was enacted in 1993. Although-this
statutory deadline was not met, we would like to make it as clear'as we possibly can »
that we intend to-ensure that the goal to review and transfer all assassination records to
NARA is accomplished during the lifetime of the Review Board. oc

We have raised with you previously our concerns about whether the Agency has
allocated sufficient resources to complete its work on its assassination records by
September 1, 1998. In a meeting at CIA headquarters on October 16, 1996, CIA
Executive Director Nora Slatkin promised members of the Review Board that the CIA
would devote whatever resources are necessary to complete the task.

In order to ensure that this work is completed, the Review Board has developed a
timetable for review of remaining CIA records. The CIA’s Historical Review Group
suggests that refinement of the timetable is necessary, but has.of yet offered no specific
changes. .

In order to fulfill our responsibilities under the JFK Act and in order to honor our
pledge to Congress, we believe that the following steps are necessary:

First, we need to establish a reasonable but strict schedule for the CLA’s review
and release of records. The CIA must devote all of the resources necessary to
review the records under this schedule. We believe that the only way to ensure
that the CLA’s work is completed is to adhere to such a schedule.

Second, if the CIA has not completed its scheduled review by the proposed
deadline, the Review Board will require that all CLA records identified as
assassination records under the JFK Act be transferred forthwith to the National -
Archives regardless of whether they have been reviewed or processed by the
CIA pursuant to the Board’s authority at 44 U.S.C. § 2107.7(j)(B).

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October 17, 1997
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Third, the Board will presumptively vote to open in full all records that have not
been reviewed j in conformity with the schedule. :

We can assure you that we have no desire whatsoever to take steps t two and three. .
However, at this point, we see no other method for satisfying our obligation to ensure”
that the CIA’s assassination-related records are released by September 1998, unless the
CIA agrees to schedule the review in a timely, consistent, methodical, and enforcedble
manner. Although you should not hesitate to contact us regarding any ideas you have
for streamlining or improving the accomplishment of this task, there should-be no
misunderstanding by the Agency regarding what we believe our goal to be and the _
steps that we are prepared to take to ensure the fulfillment of our statutory obligations
and our promises to Congress. It is our perception that if the Agency allocates
additional resources to the accomplishment of this Project, we all will be able to
accomplish the goals of the JFK Act.

We therefore strongly urge the Agency to allocate now whatever resources are
necessary to complete its review records in an orderly and systematic manner. To the
extent that the Agency is able to meet the necessary deadlines, there will be no need for
us to resort to the extreme -- but potentially necessary — measures to complete our

. obligations to Congress and the American people.

Sincerely,

T. Jeremy Gunn
Executive Director

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600 E Street NW - 2nd Floor « Washington, DC 20530
(202) 724-0088 + Fax: (202) 724-0457

GIAHAS NO BBLECTION TO
October 30, 1997 | aes AND/OR
; sS GAMITIZED
VIA FACSIMILE
J. Barry Harrelson ©
Senior Review Officer
Historical Review Group
Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D.C. 02505

Re: Submission of CIA’s Initial Statement of Compliance Under the JFK
ination Records Collection Act, 44 U. C. 2107

Dear Mr. Harrelson:

I have been asked by Jeremy Gunn to take responsibility, along with Robert Skwirot.
and Michelle Combs, for handling the Review Board’s JFK Act Compliance Program
with respect to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr, Gunn has informed me that you have agreed to provide us with the CIA’s initial
compliance statement (as it is described in our November 27, 1996 letter to the CIA) by
the end of November 1997.. Thereafter, we can establish a reasonable time for the CIA
to prepare and submit its Final Declaration of Compliance. The CIA’s Final Declaration
will be submitted to Congress and the President.

Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,

Tennatd Y. Heer

Ronald G. Haron
Associate General Counsel

cc: (Linda Cipriani} Esq.

Boaro Memeens: John A. Tunhelm, Chair « Henry F. Graff « Kermit L. Hall » William L. Joyea « Anne K. Nelson
Executive Dinecron: David G, Marwali

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| DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR
February 11, 1998 es DOCUMENT

VIA FACSIMILE

Mr. J. Barry Harrelson

Senior Review Officer

Historical Review Group

Center for the Study of Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 02505"

Re: CIA Initial Compliance Statement To Be Submitted Under the JFK Assassination
Records Collection Act, 44 U.S.C. § 2107

Dear Mr. Harrelson:

Thank you for submitting to the Review Board the CIA’s December 11, 1997 DRAFT of
its initial Statement of Compliance under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination
Records Collection Act (“JFK Act”). You submitted the draft to obtain the Review
Board’s initial comments. We have made a preliminary review of the draft and offer
the following comments.

The Statement is helpful in providing general background history regarding the
measures undertaken by the CIA to assemble files relating to the assassination of
President Kennedy. The Statement also gives a good overview description of those
files.. At this time, we do not propose that you make any major changes that would

delay the formal submission of the initial Compliance Statement to the Review Board.’

’ We note that the initial draft statement generally describes the records
identified in response to specific Review Board requests. For the initial Compliance
Statement, this will be sufficient. To the extent that additional records are later
identified or requests completed, these can be included in the Final Declaration of
Compliance. We also note that “[t]he status, results and documentation of specific
[Review Board] requests” are more specifically being addressed in separate memoranda —
being submitted to the Review Board, and this process is ongoing. These responses are
extremely helpful in articulating what the CIA has done to.search for records on the JFK
assassination. Therefore, the Review Board will request that these detailed responses
ultimately be incorporated by reference into the Final Declaration of Compliance.

Boarp Memsers: John R. Tunheim, Chair + Henry F. Graff « Kermit L. Hall « William L. Joyce « Anna K. Neilson
Executive Director: T. Jeremy Gunn ¢ Deputy Director: Thomas E. Samoluk

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February 11, 1997
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Therefore, please submit the CIA’s official initial Statement of Compliance to the
Review Board as soon as possible, but no later than March 16, 1998.

After formal submission of the CIA’s initial Statement of Compliance, we would
schedule an informal interview with you (and perhaps other members of the Historical
Review Group) to ask questions regarding the Compliance Statement and regarding the _
sufficiency of the CIA’s record searches. After addressing any outstanding issues, the
CIA would thereafter submit its Final Declaration of Compliance.

I recognize that you are extremely busy processing CIA records for inclusion in the JFK
Collection. However, it is essential that the CIA devote sufficient time and attention to
its Final Declaration of Compliance because, as we have stated before, | the Final
Declaration will constitute the CIA’s representation to the American public, under oath,
that the CIA has diligently searched for records relating to the JFK assassination and
that the CIA is not withholding any materials regarding the assassination.

Sincerely,

Ronald G. Haron
Associate General Counsel

cc: Esq.
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BEFORE
THE ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD
WASHINGTON, D.C. ,

7 CIA SPECIAL COLLECT
| PECL. TIONS
_ RELEASE IN FULL.
_ | | 2000

DECLARATION OF BRIAN LATELL

I, Brian Latell, do hereby declare and say: . me os

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1. I presently serve as the Director of the Center for
the Study of Intelligence (““CSI'') for the United States
Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA or ~“Agency'') and have
held this position since September 1994. I also hold the
position of Chairman of the Editorial Board (“Board'') for
‘Studies in Intelligence (Studies) , a publication of CSI. I
have served as a foreign intelligence officer for the United
States Government for over 36 years and, at CIA, I have held
a variety of senior positions of management and analytical
responsibility including serving as a member of the National
Intelligence Council for 14 years and National Intelligence
Officer (NIO) for Latin America for four of those years. I
hold a doctorate, masters and undergraduate degree from
Georgetown University, have served as a Visiting Scholar at
the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and presently
hold an appointment to Georgetown University's School of

Foreign Service as an Adjunct Professor.

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2. The purpose of this declaration is to provide the
Assassination Records Review Board with my view of the

f

status of Studies as a classified publication available

within the Intelligence Community and as an unclassified _
publication available to the public. I make the following we
statements based upon my personal knowledge, information ,

made available to me in my official capacity, and :.the

conclusions I reached in accordance therewith. crs

ey

3. Studies is an independent, scholastic endeavor with

the mission to promote scholarship in intelligence
literature. Articles submitted to Studies are intended for
educational purposes only and present solely the personal,

academic views of the individual authors. The final

. responsibility for accepting or rejecting an article rests

with the Board. Its criterion for publication is whether
the article makes a contribution to the literature of

intelligence. Articles submitted to Studies are not
, a

required to be coordinated: through channels and, indeed, are

not vetted through management by either the Board or the

author. In addition to senior Agency officers, the Board

also has membership representing other agencies of the

Intelligence Community.

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4. In the beginning of Studies, articles were

primarily written by CIA authors. In the past decade,

however, Studies has been enriched by an increasing number
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of contributions from authors from other components of the

Intelligence Community, from members of the academic world

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in the United States and abroad, and from a few private
citizens, most of whom have had some past intelligence -
connection. The Board welcomes this trend and looks forward

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to increasing. contributions from non-Agency “authors. 4

5. Once an article is submitted for consideration in

Studies it is circulated to the members of the Board for

their review. The Board then decides whether an article
meets the criteria for publication and, if it does, begins
the publication process. All unclassified submissions are
reviewed by the Publications Review Board (PRB)* to ensure
the unclassified nature of the article. The articles are
edited, approved by the Chief of CSI, and published in the

classified version of Studies. ‘Most. of the unclassified

articles published in this version are then picked up by the

unclassified version of Studies and with further slight

editing are published. If an article has been deemed to
contain classified information by its author, and it is

subsequently requested tio be released, it will be reviewed

* pRB is the same body that reviews private writings proposed for

publication by current and former Agehcy employees as required under
Agency regulation. :

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by either the History Staff, the Historical Review Program,
or more recently by the Publications Review Board --
pursuant to the personal manuscript standards -- to allow
declassification or the creation of an unclassified version.
By deeming or marking a given article as classified, we.
represent only that this personal writing contains some vas
information of a proprietary (hence classified) nature to

the US Government; that fact does not alter the nature of

this private work or convert it into an official fedéral
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record containing official government information.

6. The independence and integrity of the Board, and
its historical commitment to academic traditions, has never
been questioned by Agency management. I, as well as several
of my predecessors, can recall no cases of interference by
Agency management with the publication decisions of the

Board, no matter how sensitive the subject matter or

. critical of the Agency. Indeed, it is the antithesis of

official information and the embodiment of personal,
academic scholarship and work. The very intent is academic
in the context of educational mentoring from one individual
to those in succeeding generations. The Agency teaches
through its institutional and official course materials;
individual intelligence officers teach personally through

Studies.

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7. For the foregoing reasons, I believe that, while

““Studies in Intelligence’’ is published under the auspices

of the United States Government, it is neither an expression
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of official information nor an official release of official
Executive Branch information, but rather a forum for the =

private academic expressions of the authors.

8. Executed this 13th day of February 1998 at Fairfax
County, Virginia. , oe

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BRIAN LATELL

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19 March 1998

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
We ocutive bene RELEASE AS SANITIZED

Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20530 ;

Dear Mr. Gunn: . a ’

Re: STATEMENT CONCERNING ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY PURSUANT TO
THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE JFK ASSASSINATION
RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF. 1992

The following is a listing of thé principal measures
taken to date by the Agency. to fulfill the requirements of
the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (the
Act). Note: it does not include the numerous informal
Meetings, conversations, and exchanges between ARRB and HRP
staff members, many.of which covered all of the measures.

INITIAL SEARCHES

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a. In early 1992, even before the Act was passéd, the

Chief of, the CIA History Staff reported to the Director that
the staff had located all of the so-called “sequestered
collection” (those records compiled by the Agency for the
House Select Committee On Assassinations investigation) and
had surveyed these and other related holdings on the
assassination both at Headquarters and at the Agency records
center. The sequedStered collection contained sixty-four
record center-size boxes. In addition, the staff had

«~*located sixteen boxes of Lee Oswald's 201 file and a number
of loose folders mainly from Mexico Station records that
were collected for the Warren Commission.

, ._b. Before the ARRB was appointed by the President,

. John Pereira, Chief, Historical Review Group/Center for the
Study of Intelligence, sent a memorandum dated 25 October

t 1993 to the Agency directorates requesting a name search on

: Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination, and any documents
related to the assassination. This effort and discussions _,
with various Agency components and Agency Information ‘

\ Release Officers over the past four years resulted in more

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than 31 additional boxes of materials being sent for review:..
Included within this material were 19 boxes of JFK working

.files based on the sequestered collection, two boxes on

Nosenko, seven boxes of LA Division documents and three
boxes from the Bay of Pigs period. Not all of this material
is related to the JFK story; and in some boxes only a few
folders had anything to do with the assassination or vents

“surrounding it. To date, the ARRB stdéff has designated.
‘approximately 22 -boxes of this material as assassination ~

records. In addition, about 400 pages of material from an- -
FOIA request for minutes of the DCI‘s morning meetings which
related to JFK were added to the collection. The search for
documents is a continuing effort. Guidelines for this
effort have been sent to Agency individuals and components
which review documents and materials in the course of their
work.

REVIEWS

Cc. Historical. Review Group, now the Historical Review
Program, reviewed boxes 1 through 63 of the sequestered
collection and the Oswald 201 file and released most of the
documents: therein either in full. or in sanitized form'to the
National Archives in August 1993. The total number of pages
released by CIA prior to or during August 1993 was |
approximately 123,000. An additional release of ii
approximately 30, 000 pages of HSCA material from the
sequestered collection was made in 1995. ;

d. Box 64 of the sequestered collection contained 72
reels of microfilm primarily dealing with Directorate of
Operations materials and Office of Security files. In
addition there‘ were 22 reels of 201 files on 151
individuals. Following release of the main collection in

_ August 1993, HRG staf£- members reviewed the microfilm files

and released approximately 74,000 pages of material to the
National Archives either in full or in sanitized form.

e. The status of HRP‘s review of additional. records
and re-review of the sequestered collection will be
addressed in regular progress reports to the ARRB staff.

REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION

_£. The Agency maintains a rather unique and non-
integrated files system which precludes a single query on‘a
particular subject and the expected response from the files

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of all directorates. Following coordination with the ARRB-
staff, the Agency arranged for the staff to be briefed by a
representative of each directorate concerning the nature of
the files within the directorate --~- how they are organized,
maintained, searched, and how they have been searched
previously for assassination-related materials. Following
this effort, the ARRB staff asked for a number of additional
searches by the Agency and they are im various stages of
completion. 7 a
g. In addition, pursuant to requests both: formal and
informal. from the ARRB staff, HRP has tasked various) =... .
elements of the Agency to conduct special searches for other
materials thought to be relevant to the assassination story.
Included in this category was the Oswald security file which
was found and has been examined by the ARRB staff.- Although
a number of the requests are still outstanding, considerable

-material has been provided for review by the ARRB staff some

of which has been found to be relevant. These materials
include the History Staff‘s histories on various CIA
operations and Agency components; files on specific
individuals involved in either. the Warren Commission or HSCA
investigations; and the product of CIA internal, reviews of
programs and operations. Those parts of these materials
which are determined by the ARRB staff to have relevancy to
the assassination story will be reviewed | by HRP and?
released as completed. .

The status, results, and documentation of specific
requests are to be addressed in a separate memorandum.

Sincerely,

TO Rc woe

JFK Project rey

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Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street NW + 2nd Floor » Washington, DC 20530 ©

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO —-

July.7, 1998 DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR
RELEASE OF. CIA INFORMATION -

IN THIS DOCUMENT
HAND DELIVERY
Mr. J. Barry Harrelson ;
Chief, JFK Project
Historical Review Program , -

_ Office of Information. Management ; pee

Central Intelligence Agency . ae mG

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Washington, D.C. 20505 .

Re: — Final Search for all Original CIA Records Related to the Assassination of”
President John F. Kennedy ,

Dear Barry:

- This letter is in follow-up to our meeting of June 26, 1998, where we discussed the

comprehensiveness of CIA’s search for assassination records. As we expressed in the
meeting, the Assassination Records Review Board is extremely concerned as to whether
all original records held by the Central Intelligence Agency, particularly those
coritrolled by the Directorate of Operations, have been identified in previous searches
for records relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The Review Board i is aware that the former Chief of the Historical Review Group, John
Pereira, ordered a search of all CIA records in 1993. Since that date, however, we have
identified at least three examples of records clearly relevant to.the assassination that
have been identified through the efforts of the Review Board staff and that were
subsequently located by CIA. These records were not identified through the 1993 CIA
search.

In order to comply with the strictures of the JFK Act and to ensure that all original CIA
records relevant to the assassination are identified, the Review Board requests the
following:

1. CIA conduct a new search of all Office of Security and Directorate of
Operations (including all counterintelligence components), for any documents

relevant to the assassination, Particular care should be taken to examine possibly _ .

relevant documents dated shortly before and any time after the 1993 search.

Boarvo Memsens: John R. Tunheim, Chair - Henry F. Graff + Kermit L. Hall « William L. Joyce « Anna K. Nelson
’ Executive Dinecror: T. Jeremy Gunn * Deputy Director: Thomas E. Samoluk

(202) 724-0088 - Fax: (202) 724-0457.

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2. CIA Director George Tenet send a directive to all CLA personnel that explictly
requires all offices to search their files and notify the Historical Review Program

immediately if they have any records that might possibly be considered relevant
to the assassination—including any records created after 1992. .

3. CIA artange for a meeting between the Review Board staff and appropriate
CIA officials to discuss CIC and other counterintelligence records.

4. CIA conduct a search for updated or continued records on individuals from a
list of names to be provided by the Review Board, of subjects who weré of ,
interest to the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Wé are particularly
interested in any records that CIA acquired on these subjects since the original _
_files were sequestered in 1978. A list will be provided to you shortly.

The Review Board appreciates your cooperation and assistance in resolving these

. issues.

As time is growing short, we would like very much to ensure that these matters

are handled expeditiously.

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Assassination Records Review Board
Mr. James Oliver .
Lee Strickland, Esq.

Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street NW « 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530
(202) 724-0088 + Fax: (202) 724-0457

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION To.
July 15, 1998 RELEASE OF Te OR
VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL oe

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.
General Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505

CIA Compliance With the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. McNamara:

lam writing to address the completion of CIA’s outstanding obligations under the
President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. §
2107 (“JFK Act”), including submission by CIA of a Final Declaration of Compliance
certifying, under the Act, its work to identify and release records relating to President
Kennedy’s assassination. As we have advised CIA previously, the Final Declaration
will constitute CLA’s representations, under penalty of perjury, regarding disclosure of

. its records relating to the Kennedy assassination.

Accordingly, set forth below is our understanding of (1) the status for completion of
CIA’s work under the JFK Act and (2) the form and content of CIA’s Final Declaration.

A. Completion of CIA’s Work Under the JFK Act

We confirmed with CIA that it intends to place into the JFK Assassination Records
Collection (“JFK Collection”) at the National Archives and Records Administration
(“NARA”), by September 1998, all identified assassination records except certain
documents confirmed by the Review Board staff as being duplicates, which may be __
processed later.’ Thus, CLA commits to placing the following assassination records into
the JFK Collection by September 30, 1998:

1 In addition, some peripheral documents may be processed after September
1998, but only if identified beforehand to, and approved by, the Review Board.

Boaro Memeers: John R. Tunheim, Chair « Henry F. Graff + Kermit L. Hall « William lL. Joyce + Anna K. Nelson
Executive Director: T. Jeremy Gunn « Deputy Oinecror: Thomas E. Samoluk

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. Non-duplicate documents within the hardcopy set of the CIA-House Select
Committee on Assassinations (“HSCA“) Sequestered Collection (i.e, CIA files
that were reviewed by the HSCA for its investigation of the JFK assassination
and which were sequestered pursuant to agreement of the CIA and HSCA).

. Non-duplicate documents within the microfilm version of the CLA-HSCA
Sequestered Collection (the microfilm version is a more expansive set of records
than the hardcopy set of the CLA-HSCA Sequestered Collection in that it contains
complete underlying files, not just the specific records reviewed by the HSCA).

: Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 File. CIA has placed this file into the JFK Collection.‘
As for the microfilm copy of the Oswald 201 file (which we assume duplicates
the original Oswald 201 file processed by the CIA), we request that it be placed in
the protected portion of the JFK Collection by September 1998 (after Review
Board examination). Certain recently discovered documents relating to Oswald
also must be added to the JFK Collection.

: Lee Harvey Oswald’s Office of Security File. CIA has placed this file into the JFK.
Collection.

. Marina Oswald’s 201 File. Whilq Marina Oswald's 201 file has been processed
for the JFK Collection (as part of the CLA-HSCA Sequestered Collection), we
request that the original file be transferred to the protected portion of the JFK’

2 As CIA has reported, the hard copy and microfilm versions of the CIA-HSCA
Sequestered Collection were first placed irito the JFK Collection in 1993 and 1994. See
CIA Initial Statement of Compliance (dated March 19, 1998), at 2. Documents from
those collections are being re-processed, however, to the extent that the Review Board
has mandated that such documents be opened up to a greater extent. —

3 NARA reports that it does not have the computerized version of the record
identification forms (“RIFs”) for documents in the microfilm Sequestered Collection. _
CIA explained that it must first complete the processing of non-duplicates and update
the computer data before that data is transferred to NARA. CIA anticipates that this.
will be done sometime after October 1998.

* However, NARA reports that many documents do not have the proper RIFs
attached. CIA will coordinate with NARA to cotrect this.

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Collection by September 1998.

. Non-duplicate documents within Kennedy assassination working files of CLA
officer Russ Holines (19 boxes).

*  Non-duplicate documents selected from 7 boxes of Latin American Division
working files.

* CIA organizational materials, including the JMWAVE organizational chart
specifically designated as an assassination record by the Review Board [CIA-1].°

* Excerpts of certain CIA histories designated by the Review Board [CIA-7].

° Excerpts of CIA’s “Family Jewels” memorandum [CIA-IR-08].°

. Excerpts of a CIA personnel file that relate to organized crime/Cuba [CIA-IR-13].

. Excerpts of the personnel file of Mr. George E. Joannides, the case officer
responsible for the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) during a period
in the early 1960's [CIA-IR-21].

k
e CIA “A” files for Clay Shaw and Jim Garrison [CIA-IR-22].
° Designated Watch Committee Reports [CIA-IR-23].

° Oswald-related documents from the a general defector file maintained by the
CIA’s Office of Security [CIA-IR-24].

° Certain records from the files of former CIA Director John McCone as designated
by the Review Board [CIA-IR-28].

5 “CIA-1" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified by ©
the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to a formal,
written request (numbered 1) from the Review Board.

6 “CIA-IR-08" reflects that these assassination-related materials were identified
by the Review Board from among materials that CIA provided in response to an
informal request (numbered 8) from the Review‘Board.

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. Designated records from security files of Jack Ruby, Walter Sheridan, Harold
Weisberg, Richard Case Nagel, and Gordon Novel [CIA-IR-27].

. Excerpts from the calendar of former CIA Director Allen Dulles [CIA-IR-31].

In addition to the assassination records identified above, the Review Board currently is
inspecting additional files CLA has made available in response to Review Board
requests. We may designate additional assassination records from these files. They are:
intelligence community reports on Cuba/Soviet Union [CIA-9]; files relating to CLA
officials stationed at JMWAVE [CIA-12]; and files of various high-level CIA officials
(former Deputy CIA Directors Charles Cabell and Marshall Carter, former Deputy —
Directors for Plans Richard Bissell and Richard Helms, former General Counsel
Lawrence Houston, C. Tracy Barnes, and William Harvey) [CIA-IR-34]. Additional
assassination records may be identified from other requests for additional information.

2. Mexico City Tapes [CIA-IR-15}

We also have discussed with CIA the potential processing of recordings maintained by
CIA and apparently reflecting audio surveillance of certain “Soviet bloc” and Cuban

= facilities in Mexico City for the period November 22, 1963 through early January 1964,

including possible surveillance of the Cjban consulate in Mexico City. Because CIA has
not yet listened to the full tapes, it could not yet confirm the targets or substance of this
“electronic take.” CIA has committed to listening first to the tapes for the period
November 22-23, 1963 (approximately 18 tapes), and thereafter will discuss with the
Review Board potential placement of these and later audio recordings into the JFK
Collection. CIA said it will complete its review of the November 22-23 tapes in July.

3. Processing of Duplicate Documents under the JFK Act ,

a. The CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection. Although a version of the CIA-HSCA
Sequestered Collection (both microfilm and hardcopy) were placed in the JFK
Collection in 1993 and 1994, the CIA has since been forwarding more open versions of
certain documents in light of Review Board decisions. All such “re-processed”
documents will be placed in the JFK Collection by September 1998 except that, to the
extent that there are other duplicate copies of these re-processed documents in the
Sequestered Collection, such duplicates will be re-processed and placed into the JFK
Collection within one year after the Review Board terminates (i.e., by September 1999).

b. Russ Holmes Collection. The CIA currently has not placed the Russ Holmes

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Collection (consisting of CIA officer Russ Holmes’ working files relating to the Kennedy
assassination) into the JFK Collection. The Review Board recognizes that many
documents within the Holmes files may be duplicates of CLA documents found in the
CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection or Oswald 201 file. Nonetheless, the Review Board
considers placement of the Holmes files into the JFK Collection to be of paramount
importance in view of the selection and organization of documents that was made by a
CIA officer. Accordingly, the CLA has committed to placing into the JFK Collection, by
September 1998, all documents from the Holmes files not found elsewhere in the CIA
materials at NARA. Duplicates of documents found elsewhere in the open JFK
Collection can be processed after September 1998.

Given the unique organization of the Russ Holmes files, however, the Review Board
requests that CIA make every effort to process those files, in their entirety, as soon as
possible. Our understanding is that CIA will attempt to place the complete set of
Holmes files, including duplicates, into the JFK Collection by December 1998 but
absolutely no later than September 1999.

4. Custody of CIA Assassination Records to be Released in 2017

We have discussed with CIA its concerns regarding physical custody of certain records
whose release has been postponed, under the JFK Act, until 2017. CIA has indicated .
that it may want to retain physical custody of certain postponed records Pending
disclosure in 2017.

The Review Board believes that original, postponed records should presumptively be |
held by NARA in accordance with the JFK Act. See 44 U.S.C. § 2107(5)(e)(2) (“Each
Government office shall... . transmit to the Archivist . . . all assassination records the
public disclosure of which has been postponed ... to become part of [NARA’s]
protected Collection.”) Accordingly, all postponed assassination records of the CLA
should presumptively be transferred to the legal and physical custody of NARA by
September 30, 1998. The Review Board requests that the originals of any postponed

-records from the Oswald 201 file, the Oswald Office of Security file, and the Marina

Oswald 201 file be placed in the protected portion of the JFK Collection by September
1998. The Review Board understands that originals of postponed records from the CIA-
HSCA Sequestered Collection and the Holmes Collection would be transferred in
September 1999 after duplicates have been processed.

To the extent CIA believes that certain other records, particularly those designated as
NBR, must remain in CIA’s physical custody until 2017, we suggest further discussions

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to resolve definitively how those record groups will be handled.

5. Completion of CIA Responses to Review Board Requests

We have identified certain Review Board requests for additional information (both
formal and informal) for which responses are still due from CIA. We understand that
some outstanding responses are in draft form or otherwise nearing completion. CIA’s
completion of all outstanding responses is an essential aspect of its compliance with the
JFK Act. We identified the following responses due from CIA (certain priority items are
listed first): ;

Priority Responses Due
Accounting of Pre-Assassination Files on Oswald (partial response received) [CIA-16]
Accounting of James Angleton Files [CLIA-IR-04]
Accounting of Electronic “Take” from Mexico City [CIA-IR-15]
Possible Foreign Source for Oswald Records [CIA-IR-05]

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Possible IG reports re Oswald (CIA-IR-10]
Files on Warren Commission Critics [CIA-IR-11]
S. Breckenridge Files [CLA-IR-14]

Other Responses Due .
Intelligence Community Staff Records [CIA-8]
Interagency Source Register [CLA-10]
Computer Search for HTLINGUAL Documents [CIA-IR--03]
QKENCHANT [CIA-IR-06]

Contacts with Journalists [CIA-IR-12]

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DO Office Information [CIA-IR-18]
Computer Name searches [CIA-IR-19]
Zapruder Film [CIA-IR-25]
AMWORLD [CIA-IR-32]
Search for document mentioned in RIF No. 104-10151-10206 [CLA-IR-35]
William Pawley Files [CIA-IR-37]
_ 6. CIA Review and Declassification of Other Records
Besides CIA records, CIA is continuing to review its equities in other records, including

Church Committee records and records from the Presidential libraries. In addition, the
Review Board's interviews with former CIA official Ann Goodpasture must be

- reviewed and declassified by CIA so that the interviews can be sent to Ms. Goodpasture

for her corrections and then included with the Review Board's open records.

Finally, the Library of Congress has a se} of closed Rockefeller Commission records in

its Manuscript Division that may require CIA review and declassification. It is our
understanding that these records are closed until 2001 and can be inspected only by
permission of the CIA Director. To assess what should be done regarding release of
these records, the Review Board first seeks to inspect them. Accordingly, please
authorize the Library’s Manuscript Division to permit our inspection and let us know
when this authorization has been granted.

B. CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance

CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance will constitute its public statement, under
penalty of perjury, that (1) CIA has located and disclosed all records relating to Lee
Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy that it could identify
through a diligent records search and (2) CIA is aware of no other assassination-related
records being withheld from the public. We request that CLA submit its Final
Declaration to the Review Board absolutely no later than September 1.

To demonstrate that CIA has disclosed all relevant materials, we make the following
recommendations for CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance:

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1. CIA Should Describe More Specifically its Searches for
Assassination Records

We consider it essential that CIA describe with more specificity the searches that it
conducted for records relating to Lee Harvey Oswald and to the JFK assassination,
including searches done by CIA in the early 1990's. See CIA Initial Compl. Stnt., at 1.
This is important particularly in light of the fact that CIA record keeping is apparently
decentralized among various components of CIA. Therefore, we ask that the Final
Declaration confirm that the relevant components of CIA - the DCI and its offices, the
CIA Directorates (Operations, Intelligence, Science & Technology, and Administration),
and the CIA office responsible for maintaining CIA’s archives — in some manner. .
inventoried their holdings for the relevant time period for records relating to Oswald or
the assassination. To the extent that computer database searches were run by different
components of CIA, please confirm that fact and, if possible, identify the names or
topics searched .”

For its early 1990's searches, the CIA should attach the 1993 search request issued by the
Historical Review Group (“HRG”) and unclassified versions of memoranda from
components of CIA that describe their searches or search results. In addition, we
recently requested CIA to re-undertake its searches based on the discovery of certain
assassination records that were not identified by CLA’s earlier searches.’ We specifically
requested that CLA Director George Tenet issue a directive to all CLA offices requiring
them to search their files for assassination records. See July 7, 1998 J. Gunn Letter to B.
Harrelson. As part of its Final Declaration, we request that CIA document the steps it
took in.response to our recent request, including attaching the requested search
directive from CIA Director Tenet.

7 We understand that most CIA records relating to the assassination of President
Kennedy were collected and identified in 1978 for the House Select Committee on
Assassinations and, therefore, currently reside within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered
Collection being processed. under the JFK Act. It is not our intention to have the CIA re-
do exhaustive searches done in 1978. However, we want CIA to demonstrate, in the

. Final Declaration, that it has searched its various components and that the searches’

were sufficient to identify major records on the assassination not included within the
CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection (it is our understanding that the Sequestered
Collection does not encompass post-1978 records).

® For example, Oswald's Office of Security file was not identified through CIA’s
early searches. Similarly, we have identified recent documents related to Oswald.

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In addition, the Final Declaration should confirm whether or not CIA has saved any
1963-64 files of the Mexico City Station (and certain files from another station). If those
files have not been retained, please confirm that fact in the Final Declaration. To the
extent those files have been archived, however, then please confirm that they have been
examined for the purpose of determining whether they contain assassination records.

2. CIA Should Identify More Specifically the Records It Has Released
Relating to Oswald and the Assassination of President Kennedy ;

- We recommend that CIA identify more specifically the CIA files that have been, or will

be, placed in the JFK Collection at NARA. Although we leave this to CIA’s discretion,
we recommend that, to the extent practicable, CIA attach a non-classified listing of the

' files encompassed within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection. We believe that an

identification of the files within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection will demonstrate
the breadth and variety of assassination records being made public by the CIA.

3. CIA Should Specifically Account for Certain Important Record Groups,
Includin. Destruction of Assassination rds

_We request that CIA, in its Final Declaration, account for any important records

regarding the assassination that may hve been destroyed or that otherwise cannot be
located.

For example, CIA has reported that the original surveillance tapes that recorded the
Oswald telephone conversations with the Cuban Consulate and Soviet Embassy in
Mexico City were destroyed, and that CIA has no copies of these audio recordings.
However, CIA apparently has preserved certain recordings from Mexico City that post-
date the assassination (see J A.2 of this letter). We assume that CIA will provide a _
complete accounting for these records in its response to Review Board request CIA-IR-
15, which relates to CLA’s “electronic take” from Mexico City for the relevant time —
period. That response should be attached to the Final Declaration (CIA may also want
to attach any formal] explanation of this issue that it previously provided to the HSCA).
We want to ensure that CIA explains the circumstances for the destruction of the audio.
recordings of the Oswald telephone calls in Mexico City, confirms that no copies of this
audio surveillance has been retained by CIA, and gives a full accounting of the post-

‘assassination Mexico City tapes.

We also request an accounting of certain records of former CIA Director John McCone.
In reviewing his files, we noted that certain documents on the assassination (or dated

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around the time of the assassination) are identified on an index as missing or destroyed.
In the Final Declaration, please explain, as best as possible, the circumstances for this.

We previously requested an accounting for the files of former Counter-Intelligence
Chief James Angleton [CIA-IR-04] in view of the fact that no discrete files of Mr.
Angletori had been identified under the JFK Act. Since Mr. Angleton was involved in
the CIA’s assistance to the Warren Commission, we request that CIA’s statement
regarding Mr. Angleton’s files (i.e., CIA’s response to CIA-IR-04) be attached to the
Final Declaration.

We also ask that CIA verify that all assassination-related materials from the files of Win
Scott, former Chief of Station for Mexico City, are in fact in the CLA-HSCA Sequestered
Collection. CIA should describe what was done to inventory the Scott files to make
certain that no other assassination-related materials exist in addition to those in the
Sequestered Collection. —

The Final Declaration should identify any other records relating to Oswald or the
assassination that CIA knows to have been destroyed or removed from CIA files.

4. The CIA Should Identify, and Incorporate by Reference, Each of Its Written
0. Review Board Requests for Additional Informati

CIA has been cooperative in providing written responses to formal and informal
requests submitted by the Review Board regarding CIA records. These responses will
collectively demonstrate much of the work that CIA has done under the JFK Act. We
request that.CIA attach to its Final Declaration a list of CLA’s written responses and
identify each by subject, date of response, and'the Review Board request number. The
Final Declaration should state that each response is being incorporated therein by
reference.

5. CIA Should State That It Is Aware of No Records on Oswald or the
assinati ing Withheld from the Publi

After describing its records search under the JFK Act, identifying the assassination —
records that it has located, and accounting for records that were destroyed, CIA should.
include a representation that it is aware of no other undisclosed files or records relating
to Lee Harvey Oswald or the assassination of President Kennedy, including records
post-dating the 1978 HSCA investigation. We want the CIA to explicitly confirm, for

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relating to Oswald or the assassination.

As part of its overall representation, we request that CIA attach to the Final Declaration
its complete formal response to the Review Board’s request for an accounting of all pre-

- assassination files that CIA had on Lee Harvey Oswald [CIA-16]. We believe that CIA’s
response to CIA-16 has been very valuable and therefore should be included as part of
CIA‘s Final Declaration.

‘Also as part of its certification that no assassination records are being withheld, we
request that CIA represent that any remaining assassination records being processed
after September 1998 are, in fact, duplicates of records already in the JFK Collection (or
are peripheral documents that have been identified to the Review Board for processing
after September 1998). CIA should explain, in a general way, its methodology for
identifying duplicates so that there is a reasonable level of assurance that unique
documents are not being withheld.

6. CIA Should State Its Future Commitments With Respect to
the Disclosure of Assassination Records

As we discussed with CIA, CIA will undertake certain actions, after September 1998, to -
continue release of duplicate records and to release postponed records in 2017. We
request that CIA, in the Final Declaration, memorialize its commitment to undertake
these tasks and describe what will be done (as contemplated in {7 A.3 and A.4 of this
letter). In addition, we ask that CIA confirm in the Final Declaration that it will place
any newly discovered or created assassination records into the JFK Collection.

7. CJA Should Execute the Final Declaration Under Penalty of Perjury

CIA’s Final Declaration should be made under penalty of perjury.” We have made this
request of all agencies that have searched for records under the JFK Act. The Review
Board considers it essential that CIA’s representations regarding its search for, and
release of, assassination records be made under penalty of perjury.

Because of the decentralized nature of CIA records, we ask that the responsible

9 The Final Declaration(s) would be executed under oath in the form prescribed
by 28 U.S.C. § 1746. Thus, the appropriate CIA official(s) would state at the conclusion
of the Final Declaration(s) that “I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is
true and correct. Executed in Virginia oh this ___ day of ___ 1998.”


Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.
July 15, 1998
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individual for certain important components of CIA execute an affidavit on behalf of
that component certifying, under penalty of perjury, that a diligent search for
assassination records was undertaken. Accordingly, we seek a separate certification
from: (1) the DCI area; (2) the Directorate of Operations, including its
counterintelligence components; (3) the Directorate of Intelligence; (4) the Directorate of
Science & Technology; (4) the Directorate of Administration; and (5) the Office of
Information and Management, which we understand to be the office responsible for
maintaining CIA's archive records.

Thank you for your continued cooperation in meeting the CIA’s obligations under the-
JFK Act, responding to specific inquiries of the Review Board, and adhering to our
compliance program. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

J. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer, - .
CIA

Steven D. Tilley, Chief, JFK Assassination Records Collection
NARA .

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In a 15 July 1998 memo to CIA General Counsel, the JFK Assassination Records Review
Board outlined what it expects will be contained in CIA's Final Declaration of
Compliance, due to be submitted to the Board no later than ] September 1998. The,
following is a summary of all points in in section B which covers the Declaration: “

B. CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance

1. Specific Description of Searches

a.) Confirmation that relevant components inventoried their holdings for the
relevant time periods for records on Oswald or the assassination. These relevagt__

3

[Input details to be provided by the IROs]

- b.) Attach 1993 search request from HRG and “unclassified versions of memos
from components that describe searches and results.”

[Note: ‘search request is easy; 1993 responses, however, were thin to non-existent]
Attach recent DCI directive, unclassified version of followup memo to CI,
LA, CE and results of the searches. If possible, search terms and databases searched
should be included.
[Input’ details to be provided by the above offices]

c.) 1963-64 files of Mexico City Station. If retained, confirm that they have been
searched for assassination records. If not, state so.

[DO to provide information]

2. Provide an unclassified index identifying what files are in the JFK Collection at
NARA. To the extent possible, attach an unclassified listing of what files are in the CIA-
HSCA Sequestered Collection.

[To be done after October 98]

3. Account for Certain Important Record Groups, include. any destruction of Ass.
Records

b.) E.g. is from Mexico City tapes. Attach comment on the time and manner of
destruction of any records, including information to the effect that destroyed records were
first made available to the HSCA (if that is the case)

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[DOARO to provide input]

c.) Explain missing McCone files relating to the time of the assassination.

[DCI/IRO to provide input]

d.) Attach CIA’s statement on James Angleton’s files, especially the fact that
Angleton was involved in assisting the Warren Commission but no files have been found: ~
on this activity.

[DO/IRO to provide input]

e.) Verify that all relevant materials from Win Scott’s files are in the HBCA:
Sequestered Collection. Describe how the Scott files were inventoried to ascertain that .-
all assassination records were included.

[DO/TRO to provide input]

f.) Identify any other records relating to Oswald/assassination that CIA knows to
have been destroyed or removed from CIA holdings.

4. Include CIA’s Written Responses for ARRB Requests for Additional l Information,

with Cross References for each.
(HRP files]

5. Statement that CIA is Aware of No Records on Oswald/Assassination Being Withheld
from the Public.

b.) Include CIA response to CIA-16
c.) State that all assassination records being processed after Sept 98 are duplicates
of records already in the JFK Collection or have been identified by the ARRB as
peripheral.
Explain our methodology for identifying duplicates.

[HRP will handle al all answers to No 5]

6. CIA’s Future Commitments to Disclosure of Newly Discovered Assassination

Records

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Snyder, Richard E,

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Arcacha-Smith, Sergio
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Azcue Lopez, Esuebio
Bagley, Tennent H. (Pete)
Bakulin, Valentin Vasilyev
Balbuena, Luis
Barker, Bernard
Barnes, Winifred C.
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OIM OIM EB No. 02-98
. 22 July 1998

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FINAL DOCUMENT SEARCH TO ASSURE COMPLIANCE WITH "PRESIDENT JOHN
F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS COLLECTION ACT OF 1992". (JFK
ACT) i.

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FROM: George J. Tenet
Director of Central Intelligence

1. (U) As you know, the JFK Assassination Records Review Board (Board) is completing
its task of overseeing the search and.declassification of all Federal government records relating to
the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by 30 September 1998. The Board and we want
to do everything possible to place before the American people the full story as reflected in
government and other records.

2. (U) The Agency has been working on this effort since 1992 and has searched all of the
obvious databases. We want to make certain that we have left no stone unturned and that no
employee has any records that might possibly be considered relevant to the assassination—
including any records created [or received] after 1992. The reference to 1992 is largely intended
to encompass documents which may have come into our hands since the collapse of the Soviet
Union and Warsaw Pact.

3. (AIUO) In accordance with the provisions of the JFK Act, I hereby direct all CIA
personnel to consider documents in their possession or with which they are familiar that might
have relevance to the Board’s review and that might not have been found in the course of
electronic or manual searches over the past six years. Representatives of the Historical Review
Program believe that if such documents do exist they would, most likely, be found in files that .
would not be generally related to the assassination or that would not be “logical” areas for

systematic searches. These include working paper files or smaller databases related to countries .

not normally associated with the assassination. Relevant documents can be in the form of papers,
photographs, recordings, tapes, or other media, and can include documents “related to the
assassination,” such as later investigations, key topics/events within the Oswald/JFK Story, or
material related to key figures—such as Nosenko.

4. (AIUO) CIA personnel who believe they have information regarding documents relevant

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to the JFK review that may not have been found in previous searches should contact their
component or directorate [RO or the JFK Project Coordinator. Directorate IROs and the Agency’

s JFK Project Coordinator are as follows: *,

Secure Phone

DO/TRO William McNair : 44448

DI/IRO . - Barbara Blufer © 54644

DS&T /IRO ” Teresa Wilcox 50104

DA/IRO Becky Rant * 31204

DCI Area / IRO Mary Lou Cummings | 39058 -
JFK Project .

Coordinator Barry Harrelson 31825 . po
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Director of Central Intelligence

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENGE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

General Counsel

29 July 1998

Ronald Haron, Esq. (
General Counsel

Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street N.W., 2nd Floor
Washington D.C. 20530

Dear Mr. Haron:

Congratulations on your recent appointment as General
Counsel to the President John F. Kennedy Records Review Board
("Review Board"). You have my assurances that, as the Review
Board enters its final stages of the review and release of
records pertaining to President Kennedy's assassination, you will
continue to have CIA's full cooperation.

I am in receipt of the 15 July 1998 letter from former
General Counsel Jeremy Gunn in which he outlines CIA's
outstanding obligations under the President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107
("JFK Act"). While I recognize that much work needs to be done
over the next few months, I am confident that J. Barry Harrelson,
Senior Review Officer for CIA's Historical Review Program
("HRP"), together with the rest of the Agency team dedicated to
document review under the JFK Act, will complete the outstanding .
obligations set forth in that letter.

With respect to the Review Board's request that CIA submit a
Final Declaration of Compliance under penalty of perjury, we are
in the process of identifying the appropriate CIA official to
sign such a Declaration. Both HRP and my office will work
Closely with you to ensure the Declaration contains the
recommendations made in Mr. Gunn's letter. :

With respect to the suggestion that CIA execute a separate
affidavit by an officer from each of the CIA's four Directorates
as well as from the DCI area, the Office of Information
Management, and the counterintelligence components of the
Directorate of Operations, I believe that this is an
unnecessarily cumbersome and confusing means by which to. attest
to Agency-wide record searches. Rather, I propose that the
Executive Director of the CIA appoint one senior official as a
Records Validation Officer ("RVO"). An RVO has the authority to
locate, identify, and preserve records created or maintained by
any Agency Directorate or component which are actually or

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potentially relevant to the subject matter of the search. An RVO
also has authority to execute affidavits or to testify under oath
with respect to all the record searches done by every Directorate
or component of the CIA. For your information, this is the usual
method by which CIA attests under oath to record searches done by
more than one Directorate in criminal and civil litigation before
the federal courts. co

I appreciate this opportunity-to assure you of CIA's
continued cooperation with the Review Board. Should you have any
-further questions or concerns regarding this matter, you may ~-
contact (Linda Cipriani} of my office at (703) 874-3124.

Sincerely,

obert M. McNamara, Jr. -_

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VIA FA US.
Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Esq.
General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505
Re: Compii Wi Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. McNamara: --

Thank you for your July 29 letter regarding CIA’s submission of its Final Declaration of
Compliance with the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act
of 1992,.44 U.S.C. § 2107 (“JFK Act”). lam writing to address CLA’s desire that one
official certify, under oath and on behalf of the entire agency, that CLA has conducted a
thorough search for records relating to President Kennedy's assassination. Your letter

"and concerns were brought directly to the attention of Review Board members for their

consideration. We understand that CLA would prefer that each CIA Directorate not
be required to certify separately that it has done an adequate search for records on the

assassination, as the Review Board had requested.

The Review Board specifically considered your proposal that the certifying official be a

records validation officer appointed by the CIA’s Executive Director. The Review

Board requests, however, that the CIA’s certification be made at the highest levels of the

CIA. The Review Board believes that certification by a records validation officer would

be insufficient to assure, to the fullest extent possible, public. confidence in the CIA’s
representations that it has searched for and released all relevant materials relating to

President Kennedy’s assassination. In view of the importance of the CIA’s formal
representations regarding its holdings on Lee Harvey Oswald and President Kennedy’s
assassination, the Review Board requests that CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance be
certified, under oath, both by CIA’s Executive Director and its General Counsel. a

Lask that CLA confirm that it will agree to this: manner of certification.

Boarp Memuens: John A Tunheim, Chalr + . Henry F. Graff + Kermit L. Hall « William L. Joyce » Anna K. Nelson
Executive Dinecron: T. daramy Gunn + Deeury Dinector: Thomas E. Samoluk

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August 10, 1998

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Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,

Ronald Y- Waser

Ronald G. Haron
Generai Counsel

cc: (Linda Cipriani! Cipriani,Esq.,
. CIA

J. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer,
CIA

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OIM 98-0088
12 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
Deputy Director for Intelligence
Deputy Director for Operations
Deputy Director for Science and Technology
Administrative Officer, DCI Area

FROM: Edmund Cohen
Director of Information Management

SUBJECT: Documentation of Searches Conducted in
Support of JFK Act

REFERENCE: Memo,:. “CIA compliance with the JFK .
Assassinations Records Collection Act
of 1992,” dtd 15 Jul 98, fr the
Assassination Records Review Board.

1. The purpose of this memorandum is to. advise you of
a requirement to provide to the JFK Assassination Records
Review Board a “Final Declaration of Compliance” with the
JFK Act. - The declaration must include: a description of
-component searches undertaken in response to: Board taskings. .
since 1993; information on any possible destruction of.:.
assassination records; and a representation that a diligent
‘search for assassination records was undertaken. We are in
‘need of assistance of your staff in preparing” the
description of these items for inclusion in the compliance .
response.

2. The referenced memorandum describes the Board‘s
requirements for the “Final Declaration” in greater
detail. Jim Oliver, Chief, Historical Review Program
and Barry Harrelson, the Agency’s JFK Review Focal Point,
are meeting with the Directorate Information Review Officer
and, as appropriate, other members of your staff to review —
the information needed to support the certifications which
the Agency will need to make.

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SUBJECT: Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support
of JFK Act .

3. In order to meet the 1 September 1998 deadline
prescribed by the Board, we request that the information
described in paragraph 1 be sent to Mr. Harrelson by close
of business, 21 August 199: re

Edmund Cohen

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SUBJECT: Documentation of Searches Conducted in Support
of JFK Act

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: (U) Electronic Dissemination of Employee Bulletin

(AIUO) I was requested to send the EB 02-98 Cena ocument
Search - JFK). The request was distributed to all of fhe’ ,
Directorate via Lotus notes on Monday 17 August’ 1998, the notice
was placed in the system on the 18 and received by the
Directorate personnel on the 19". Additionally, we placed it on
the morning message that people receive when they first log onto ©

the system. Lo or
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Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.

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IMS/ESG/HCS Fwickham x44448:mjk (21 August 1998)

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UNCLASSIFIED —

27 August 1998

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, JFK Declassification
Project/HRP/OIM/DA

FROM: Fredrick C. Wickham, Jr.
Chief, Information Management Staff,
External Support Group

SUBJECT: DO Results of New Search for JFK
Assassination Records .

1. This memorandum is in response to the request from
the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB).
The staff requested that the CIA issue an Agency-wide
employee bulletin for a new search for JFK Assassination
Records. OIM-98-0081 dated 30 July 1998 was issued. —

2. DO/Information Management Staff ran a corporate
search of {COMET} the DO’s electronic message repository.
That search generated some 128 hits. Michelle Combs of the
ARRB staff reviewed the search results and selected three
records for inclusion in the JEK assassination records
collection.

3. The three selected documents have been sanitized
with Ms. Combs’ concurrence. The sanitization is more
extensive than JFK guidelines because of the documents’
proximity to the present and to current sources and methods.

4. The documents are not herewith attached. They are
being provided separately by DO/IMS/ESG/HCS.

\ CRA C. Wickham, Jr

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Assassination Records.

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY VY!

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 SEP 1999

Office of General Counsel
31 August 1998

Ronald G. Haron, Esq.

General Counsel

Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20530

Re: CIA Compliance With the JFK Assassination Records
Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. Haron:

This letter responds to your 19 August 1998 request that the
Central Intelligence Agency confirm, in writing, who will certify
its compliance statement. This is to confirm that Edmund Cohen,
the CIA's Director of Information Management, will sign.

As Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is
responsible for providing oversight and direction to the Agency's
records and classification management activities, and information
declassification and release programs. He is also responsible
for the development and maintenance of automated tools. to support
these activities. He oversees classification and
declassification policies, procedures, and practices. He manages
the Agency Archives and Records Center, and serves as the CIA >
Archivist and the Agency Information Review Officer... He
coordinates the conduct of all special searches within the Agency
and the release of any information uncovered in such searches.
Finally, as Director of Information.Management, Mr. Cohen is
responsible to conduct, on behalf of the Agency, liaison with the
National Archives and Records Administration and its Office of
the Federal Register, and with the Information Security Oversight
Office;. and with any other entities on any matters within the
responsibility or authority of the Director of Information
Management .

We believe that Mr. Cohen is clearly the most knowledgeable
individual within the Agency, by position and experience, to
execute such a certification. Based upon our short telephone
discussion, I understand that he is, in addition, at least as
senior as the anticipated signatories from other agencies or
departments from which the Board has requested certifications.

“From a practical standpoint, we at CIA make a concerted effort to

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the Agency on important matters such as this. It is for this
reason that we have chosen Mr. Cohen. 7

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If you wish to discuss this matter further, please call me
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EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
ROUTING SLIP

SUSPENSE DATE: 21 September 1998
DOCUMENT NO: ER 98-4210
Contact(Betsy Quint-Moran} (x37929) regarding suspense items.

COORDINATION/ROUTING:

EXDIR office to take lead in preparing and coordinating response with OGC.

SUMMARY:

The JFK Assassination Records Review Board has received the Agency’s Final Declaration
of Compliance. The Board is requesting certifications by the individual! directorates, as well
as the office of the DCI, or alternatively that the EXDIR and the General Counsel certify that
CIA has met its obligations under the JFK Act and certify that no records on the
assassination or Lee Harvey Oswald have been knowingly withheld. Absent the requested
certifications, the Board considers depositions of senior Agency officials necessary and

| requests the DDO be made available ASAP, but no later than 21 September, for

‘| examination.

Date: 14 September 1998
Received in ER:_14 September 1998
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ASSASSINATION RECORDS REVIEW BOARD
600 E STREET, N.W. SECOND FLOOR
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530
202-724-0088
Fax: 202-724-0457

To: “Ceorep ‘Tenet, DCL Date: q | iujag

Fax#: FOB- UZA- ZO6UY Pages: ‘3 , including this cover sheet.
From: John R- Tenheim » Chaiv

Subject CLA Comptiang with the SFr Act
COMMENTS:

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Assassination Records Review Board
600 E Street NW + 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530
(202) 724-0088 + Fax: (202) 724-0457

September 14, 1998

VIA FACSIMILE AND U.S. MAIL
The Honorable George Tenet
Director

Central Intelligence Agency
Washington, D.C. 20505*

Re: CIA Compliance With the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Mr. Tenet:

We have received the CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance (dated September 2, 1998)
regarding the completion of CIA’s work under the President John F. Kennedy
‘Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (“JFK Act”). On behalf of
the Board, Iam writing to express the Board’s disappointment that CIA has been
unwilling to have the most senior officials of your agency attest to CIA’s compliance
with the JFK Act.

The Board had first asked CIA to submit separate certifications from each directorate, as
well as the office of the DCI, attesting to their searches for assassination-related records.
We stressed these measures to obtain assurance that all components of the CIA had
complied with the JFK Act, as well as to assure the American people that the U.S.
Government had left no stone unturned in releasing records on the assassination of
President Kennedy. The CIA refused to submit separate certifications, insisting it was
their practice for one official to speak on behalf of the entire Agency. The Board then
requested that CIA’s most senior officials, the Executive Director and General Counsel,
certify CIA’s Final Declaration of Compliance under the JFK Act. CIA refused.

In 1992, CIA Director Gates testified to Congress that he was “determined personally to
make public or to expose to disinterested eyes every relevant scrap of paper in CIA’s
possession” that related to the Kennedy assassination. See The Assassination Materials
Disclosure Act: Hearing on S.J. Res. 282 Before the Senate Comm. on Governmental Affairs,
102d Cong., 2d Sess. 55 (1992). The Board has merely asked that CIA’s highest officials
confirm that they are fully confident that this commitment has been fulfilled. While we
recognize the substantial documentation provided, by CIA to demonstrate its work
under the JFK Act, we are disappointed that CIA has been uncooperative in responding

Boaro Memaens: John RA. Tunheim, Chair « Henry F. Graff + Kermit L. Hall > William L. Joyce * Anne K. Nelson
Executive Dinecton: 7. Jeremy Gunn * Deputy Dinecron: Thomas E. Samoluk

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September 14, 1998
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to this most simple of requests. For me personally and for other members of the Board,
this raises significant concerns as to whether CIA’s highest officials actually have
confidence in the reliability of the results for which the Review Board and CIA have
expended considerable effort, energy and resources over the past five years. Such
concerns may be noted in our Final Report.

Therefore, the Review Board specifically requests that CIA submit certifications by the
individual directorates, as well as the office of the DCI, or, in the alternative, that the
Executive Director and the General Counsel certify that CIA has met its obligations
under the JFK Act and certify that no records on the assassination or Lee Harvey
Oswald have been knowingly withheld. We continue to believe that these more
stringent certifications are needed, in part because of CIA’s belated discovery of core
records relating to the assassination.

Absent certification by the highest levels of CLA, as sought by the Board, the Board
considers depositions of senior Agency officials to be absolutely necessary.
Accordingly, pursuant to our authority under the JFK Act, the Board requests that CIA
make the Deputy Director for Operations immediately available for deposition. The
Directorate of Operations has been the primary repository for records directly relating
to Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination. In fact, the Directorate of Operations only
recently uncovered additional records relating to a KGB source with information
relating to Lee and Marina Oswald. We ask that the Deputy Director of Operations be
made available for examination as soon as possible, but no later than September 21. He
will be expected to testify on behalf of the Directorate of Operations regarding its
record systems, and its searches for assassination records, including searches conducted
by the Counter-intelligence staff. :

Thank you for your cooperation, and please inform us as soon as possible regarding
CIA‘s compliance with this Review Board request.

Sincerely,

fbn, Yohei

John R. Tunheim
Chair

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600 E Street NW + 2nd Floor - Washington, DC 20530
2 (202) 724-0088 + Fax: (202) 724-0457—
© CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO _
-DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR /

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION a

IN THIS DOCUMENT

September 16, 1998

BR LE AND U.S. MAIL

Robert M. McNamara, Jr.,Esq. .
General Counsel

Central Intelligence Agency ,
Washington, D.C. 20505 a a on

Gary M. Stern
General Counsel
_National Archives and Records Administration bd
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, Maryland 20740-6001

Re: CIA Compliance With the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992

Dear Messrs. McNamara and Stern:

The Review Board considers it essential that certain remaining obligations of the CLA
under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44
US.C. § 2107 (“JFK Act”). be identified and memorialized before the Board ceases
operations on September 30, 1998.

I therefore am enclosing, for your agencies’ consideration, a draft Memorandum of |
Understanding setting forth the outstanding obligations of CIA under the JFK Act. We
believe that it is in the interest of the CIA, the National Archives, the Review Board, and
ultimately the public to put in writing our collective understanding of the additional
work that CIA must undertake and the reasonable time frames within which it should
be completed. It is our intent'to reduce any future ambiguity or disagreements that
may potentially arise as CLA completes its work. We also believe that this MOU will
facilitate the ability of the Archivist of the United States to carry out his statutory
obligation to certify to the President that all assassination-related records have been
released in accordance with the Act (see 44 U.S.C. § 2107(12)).

The terms of a Memorandum of Understanding have been discussed among the staffs
of the Review Board, the National Archives, and CIA. We believe that the enclosed
draft proposal is a fair accommodation of competing interests.. Please review the

Boaro Memeers: John R. Tunheim, Chair « Henry F. Graff + Kermit L. Hall + William L. Joyce + Anna K. Nelson
Executive Director: T. Jeremy Gunn - Deputy Dinecroa: Thomas E. Samoluk

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Gary M. Stern, Esq.
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enclosed draft MOU so that we can resolve any outstanding i issucs and ultimately reach
an agreement on an MOU before September 30, 1998.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Ronald G. Haron
General Counsel

cc: ‘J. Barry Harrelson, Senior Review Officer,

Steven D. Tilley, Chief, ee ee
_ JFK Collection, NARA

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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING
CONTINUING OBLIGATIONS OF THE CIA UNDER THE JFK ACT

WHEREAS the operations of the Assassination Records Review Board (“Review - ;
Board”) cease on September 30, 1998 in accordance with the President John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, 44 U.S.C. § 2107 (“JFK Act”);

WHEREAS the JFK Act provides that “the provisions of this.Act [as applied to Federal
agencies] shall continue in effect until such time as the Archivist certifies to the
President and the Congress that all assassination records have been made aygilable to .
the public in accordance with [the] Act” GFK. Act§12);and . a,
WHEREAS the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”), the Review Board, and the
National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) seek to ensure that the CIA
completes its continuing obligations under the JFK Act in a timely fashion;

IT IS HEREBY AGREED by the CIA (including any successor intelligence agency), the -
Review Board, and NARA that:

1. All CIA records identified as assassination records under the JFK Act will be
placed in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (“fFK Collection’) at NARA
in College Park, Maryland by September 30, 1998 unless otherwise noted in this
Memorandum of Understanding;

2. CIA may transmit the following assassination records to the JEK Collection after
September 30, 1998:

a. Duplicate documents within the CIA-HSCA Sequestered Collection. .
(both hardcopy and microfilm sets).! The CIA will ensure that, by
. September 30, 1999, duplicate copies of documents from the CIA-HSCA
_. Sequestered Collection (both hardcopy and microfilm sets) will be
placed in the JFK Collection. .

b. Duplicate documents within the working files of CIA officer Russ.
Holmes. The CIA will ensure that, by December 31, 1998, duplicate copies
of documents from the Russ Holmes working files will be placed in -

the JFK Collection.

' “Duplicate documents” are exact copies of documents that are already publicly
available in the JFK Collection as part of other CIA files or records.

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c. The audio tapes, and any transcriptions or summaries made by the
CIA, from surveillance of certain Soviet and Cuban diplomatic facilities i in
Mexico City for the period November 22, 1963 to January 1964. These
tapes ( approximately 185), and any transcriptions or summaries, shall be
placed in the JFK Collection by September 30, 1999. The CIA will submit
these tapes to the JFK Collection on a rolling basis, as CLA completes”
. Feview of individual tapes. Any postponements shall be identified to
NARA and postponed information forwarded to the “Protected
Collection” (ie., the classified, postponed records within theJFK = -
Collection) in accordance with Section 5(e) of the JFK Act.

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d. Working files from the DCI area, mostly from DCI's Executive:

Registry, that had been compiled in anticipation of passage of the yek Act.
These working materials, which consist mostly of duplicate documents, -
shall be placed in the JFK Collection by Decmber'31,1998.. .

e. A document containing a list of names and cryptonyms created by the
HSCA staff. Given the detailed nature of information in this document
(RIF No. 104-10061- 20115), the Board agrees that this can.be processed by
December 31, 1998.

f. Any other. rion-duplicate assassination-related records created or’
discovered by the CIA.after September 30, 1998. -

3. The CIA will: review its equities in records that have been referred to it, and the
CIA will cooperate with NARA and other Federal agencies to ensure that such
records are released under the standards of the JFK Act and placed into the JFK
Collection. The CIA will review the following major. categories of records:

_a. Church Committee records identified by the Review Board i in August
1998 as being assassination-related. a

b. Records from the files of Robert F. Kennedy, maintained at the JFK
Library, that the Library and/or Review Board has identified as either

. assassination records or as records that would enhance the historical
unnderstanding of the assassination. _

c. Records of the Rockefeller Commission, maintained by the Manuscript
Division at the Library of Congress, to the extent that the Library of
Congress identifies assassination records that are not available as part of -
the Ford Library set of Rockefeller Commision documents in the JFK
Collection.

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d. The Army’s Investigative Records Repository file on Alfredo Mirabal

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The CIA will complete its review and and recommendations for release of the
major record categories listed above no later than April 30, 1999. To the extent
there may be other agency documents requiring CIA review under JFK Act, the

_ , CIA will continue to undertake such review.:

The CIA shall handle the certain origina or postponed records in the following

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a. By September 30, 1998, CIA shall transmit to the “protected

Collection,” in accordance with Section 5(e) of the JFK Act, the originals of

all postponed records from Lee Harvey Oswald's 201 file, Office of

Security file, and “A” file. : 7 iss »

b. By September 30, 1998,. CIA shall transmit to the “Protected ¢. gi”
Collection” the hardcopy original of Marina Oswald’s 201. i Or
c. By September 30, 1998, the CIA will transmit'to the “Protected
Collection” all of the original microfilm rolls forthe CIA-HSCA  —st—iéY)#S i)

_ Sequestered | collection. o

d. By September 30, 1998, the CIA will transmit to the “Protected
Collection” all records with postponed information to the extent that such
records are not available on the CIA- HSCA microfilm rolls transmitted to

' NARA.

7 AY e. By October 30, 1998, the CIA will | transmit to the “Protected Collection” y
the entire Oswald 201 file that was printed from the CIA-HSCA

‘ make its own reference copy).
f. By December 31, 1998, CIA shall transmit to the “Protected Collection” ul gre
the originals of all postponed records from the Russ Holmes working files «

" (this will permit the CIA to process duplicate re records in the Holmes
Collection by that date).

The Review Board and the CIA have determined that certain materials reviewed:
under the JFK Act are not believed to be relevant to the Kennedy assassination
(designated “NBR”), but nonetheless should ultimately be placed in the JEK

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Collection. These NBR materials are: certain files contained within the CLA-
HSCA sequestered collection; certain CIA work files relating to Yuri Nosenko
(but not related to the assassination);? certain materials within the Russ Holmes
Collection; and the complete version of certain records, portions of which were
designated as assassination-related by the Review Board in connection with its
requests for additional records and information. These hard copy materials will
be physically retained by the CIA and then forwarded to the JFK Collection for
public release by October 26, 2017. Within two months of the execution of this
agreement, the CIA shall provide to NARA, in writing, a list of the hardcopy files

_ being retained. until 2017 and confirm the arrangements for securing this
material. NARA shail have the right to inspect and inventory this material for

_ archival and administrative purposes before 2017, and these materials dtrall be

’ made available for inspection by NARA upon its request. ~ ., oR

6. The CIA shall cooperate and coordinate with NARA in carrying out the -
provisions of the JFK Act, including Section 5(g) of the JFK Act, which provides
for the “periodic review” of postponed assassination records. Such review “shall

_ address the public disclosure of additional assassination records in the Collection
under the standards of the Act” (§ 5(g)(2) (A)) and “shall serve to. downgrade
and declassifiy security classified information” (§ 5(g){2)(C)).

7. The CIA recognizes that, in the year 2017, “{e]ach assassination record shall be
publicly disclosed in full....” JFK Act § 5 (g). To the extent that records are
postponed but are to be released on a date prior to 2017, NARA shall release the
records on the date the Review Board set for release. If the CIA seeks continued
postponement of any record in the year 2017 (or an earlier scheduled release
date), it will be incumbent upon the CIA to obtain from the President
“certification” that continued postponement is necessary. SeeJFK Act§
5(g)(2)(D). Within six months of the scheduled release date, the CIA shall be
responsible for notifying NARA of any specifc records, including any records
within the microfilm rolls for the CIA-HSCA sequestered collection, for which it
will seek Presidential certification of continued postponement.

With respect to the NBR material identified in paragraph 5, these NBR materials
shall be physically transferred to NARA by October 26, 2017 for release. In the
event CIA seeks further postponement of any NBR material, it shall identify that
material to NARA and seek Presidential certification that the material needs to
be postponed. »

? The Nosenko materials related to the assassination have been placed in the JFK
Collection.

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8. With respect to the review of other agency documents referred to CIA, the
review of any new assassination records, or the periodic review of postponed
assassination records, the CIA shall, in good faith, continue to apply the’
postponement criteria of the JFK Act as previously interpreted by decisions s of

the Review Board.

9. This Memorandum of Understanding i is intended to clarify the CIA's | obligations.
under the JFK Act in view of the expiration of the Review Board’s term on

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September 30, 1998. This Memorandum of Understanding shall not be
interpreted to limit CIA‘s. obligations under the JFK: Act.

Date:

Date:

Date:_..

David W. Carey |
Executive Director _ -
Central Intelligence Agency

Signed:
Laura A. Denk

Executive Director.
_ Assassination Records Review Board

Signed:

John W. Carlin
Archivist of the United States

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THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
«at WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505

CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
RELEASE IN FULL 16 September 1998 ;
2000 | | oo

Mr. John R. Tunneim

Chair, Assassination Records
Review Board

600 E Street, NW

Washington, DC 20530

Re: JFK. Assassination Records Collection Act of i992, _
rant

Dear Mr. Tunhein: a oo

This wiil respond to your 14 September 1998 letter regarding
Central Intelligence Agency compliance with the “JFK Acct.

I have no doubt whatsoever that the CIA has fully met its
obligations to locate, review, and release "assassination
records" as defined in the JFK Act. -The Agency’s 2 September
1998 Declaration of Compliance-signed, as you note, by CIA's
Director of Information Management, Edmund Cohen—confirms my
judgment. I have full confidence in the scope of the Agency’s
searches as described in Mr. Cohen’s recent declaration.

As Director of Information Management, Mr. Cohen is directly
responsible for CIA‘s records systems and for ensuring the
adequacy of CIA‘’s search, review, and release of documents under
the JFK Act. Mr. Cohen signed the Agency’s Declaration of
Compliance because he was the most senior Agency official with

- direct personal knowledge that its statements. were accurate and
complete. There was no more appropriate signatory.

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In sum, I understand that the appropriate CIA stafi officers |

have worked diligently to locate and disclose to the JFK Board
all relevant records in the Agency’s possession and that they do
not believe any other relevant records are being withheld from
the Board. Mr. Cohen's declaration confirms my understanding.

I trust that this will meet your requirements.

Sincerely,

George J. Tenec


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